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THE NEWARK POSTER 

By A. E. Foringer 




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OFFICIAL GUIDE AND 

MANUAL 

of the 250th Anniversary Celebration of 
the Founding of Newark, New Jersey 



1666 FiK^ 1916 




The City of Newark 

Chief Industrial Center of New Jersey 



HISTORICAL, STATISTICAL 
AND GENERAL REVIEW, TO- 
GETHER WITH NUMEROUS 
ARTICLES RELATING TO THE 
CITY AND ITS CELEBRATION 



v/ ILLUSTRATED '^ 



Compiled under the direction of the Publicity 
Committee of the Committee of One Hundred 



.HENRY WELLINGTON WACK, Editor 



EDITION 250,000 COPIES ; . ., 

Published and Distributed by 

Newark Sales and Advertising Company 






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This Volume, prepared in the busy days 
of Newark's 250th Anniversary Celebra- 
tion, is respectfully dedicated to posterity, 
with the hope that it will in some measure 
be a guide to the stranger within our city 
during our festival season and that the 
generations that are to follow may gain 
strength from the civic demonstration 
and the patriotic enthusiasm of our 
period to build even better than we have 
built in this high-tensioned day. 



Copyright, 1916, by Newark Sales and Advertising Company 
Newark, New Jersey 

THE ESSEX PRESS. PRINTERS. NEWARK 



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Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor, Newark; Franklin Murphy, Chairman Committee 
of One Hundred-, Uzal H. McCarter, Chairman Executive and Finance Committee 



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BRIEF CHRONOLOGY OF IMPORTANT EVENTS 

1666 Newark was settled. 

1668 Commissioners of the Town met at "Divident Hill" to fix boundaries. 

1668 First grist mill was built. 

1673 Newark population included 86 men. 

1673 New York surrendered to Dutch; transfer of allegiance to the Republic 

of Holland of the people of Newark. 

1674 New Jersey restored to England and Philip Carteret returned as 

Governor. 

1676 The first School established. John Catlin schoolmaster. 

1698 The first tan yard established. 

1714 The first schoolhouse. 

1721 The first stone quarried for the market. 

1776 Washington was stationed in Newark with an army of 5,000 men for 

five days. 

1791 Newark's first paper. Woods Gazette, started. 

1792 First Free School in the United States opened. 
1801 Jewelry was manufactured by "Epaphras Hinsdale." 

1819 Seth Boyden makes first patent leather ever manufactured in the 

country. 

1820 Population was 6,507. 

1826 Population of Newark was 8,017; of these 7,237 were within, and 780 

outside of the township. 

1828 Seth Boyden discovers the process of making malleable iron. 

1834 New Jersey Railroad opened. 

1835 Morris and Essex Railroad opened. 

1836 Newark incorporated a city. 
1836 Population was 19,732. 

1836 Streets of Newark were lighted with oil lamps. 

1837 Morris Canal opened. 

1838 First High School established in city. 
1838 Court House and City Hall dedicated. 
1855 First German School established. 

1859 First horse street railway company incorporated. 

1868 March 17th, Newark Board of Trade incorporated. 

1869 Water Works at Belleville completed. 

1885 Newark Technical School established by the Board of Trade. 

1885 County Park System established. 

1888 Free Public Library Incorporated. 

1890 Unveiling monument to Seth Boyden. 

1892 First new Prudential Building erected. 

1906 First automobile fire engine introduced in Newark. 

1907 First City Playgrounds. 

1911 Opening of Manhattan and Hudson Terminal, Electric High Speed 
fe» !^^ Line, Park Place and Centre Street. 

1912 Newark Industrial Exposition. 
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THE 250TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE FOUNDING OF 
NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 

May to October, 1916 

By HENRY WELLINGTON WACK 

Executive iVdviser, Committee of One Hundred 

The intent of Newark's finely-conceived celebration from May to October, 
1916, was even more significant than its forms and ceremonies. Newark be- 
gan to realize herself, as youth merging into maturity. As the life of American 
cities is measured, Newark was not very young. Yet she had gone forward 
rather slowly and conservatively for two hundred years before the impulse 
to greater attainment and more virile attributes impelled her onward toward 
the meridian of her present physical stature of 400,000 citizens and a pro- 
gressive government. 

During the summer of 1914, when the city was within sight of her 250th 
birthday, her Mayor, Hon. Jacob Haussling, a man of acute prevision and 
active political loyalty to the city's welfare, appointed a committee of its lead- 
ing citizens to undertake the collection of a celebration fund of $250,000.00 by 
voluntary subscription from the citizens of Newark, of whom 6,000 responded 
with an astonishing spirit of patriotism. 

This committee is known as the Committee of One Hundred. Its sub- 
committees were Executive and Finance; Memorial Building; Manufactures 
and Trade; Schools and Philanthropy; Monuments and Tablets; Parades 
and Decorations; Publicity; Historical and Literary; Transportation; 
Pageantry; Reception and Entertainment; Exhibitions and Athletics; 
Legislation; Municipal Participation and Church Participation. 

The membership of the general committee and its sub-committees is in- 
dicated elsewhere in this manual. The very magnitude of the anniversary 
plans, their wide scope and variety, is somewhat implied by this array of 
subsidiary bodies. 

The inspiration of Newark's celebration has been stated in many graceful 
essays published in the Newarker since October, 1915, a journal dedicated to 
its advancement, and published by the Committee of One Hundred under 
the Editorship of the writer. As succinct as any and as happy as all, is the 
leader of welcome written by Hon. Franklin Murphy, Former Governor of 
New Jersey, in the first page of the premier edition of the celebrant Newarker 
— November, 1915. Governor Murphy wrote: 

"With this issue. The Newarker occupies, in part at least a new field. 
It does not entirely desert the old, but its larger part will be devoted to an- 
other purpose. It will describe as fully and as clearly as it can the work 
which the Committee of One Hundred is doing to celebrate, in an extensive 
and elaborate manner, the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the day 
that Robert Treat and his little band of sturdy men and women from 



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Connecticut landed on tlie banks of the Passaic River and founded the 
City of Newark. 

The use of the paper has been borrowed for th's purpose and when this 
purpose has been accomplished it will be returned to the Library and its gifted 
Librarian. In the mean time, Mr. Dana will have something to say to his 
old friends in each issue, and if they miss his gentle touch and his kindly 
counsel on every page they can feel that the sacrifice they make is for a cause 
that has his earnest and cordial support. 

The Newarker then, for a few months, will tell you about Newark and its 
coming celebration. It will remind you that for two centuries it was content 
to live its own quiet life, recognizing that its nearness to New York must 
always keep it more or less provincial and that the interests of the greater 
city would consign it more or less to the background. It will tell you that 
a half a century ago it began to have ambitions of its own and started to move 
from under the shadow of its great neighbor. So far it has done very well. 

It has now most of the adornment of a great city. Its streets are well 
paved and well sewered. Its schools greatly enlarged and improved, are 
among the best. Its beautiful churches are sufficient to give attractive seats 
to all who would attend. Its superb water supply is not surpassed in quality. 
It has a public service in light and transportation that is unexcelled. Its 
public buildings are important and beautiful and if to some its debt may seem 
small for so great a city, it may be said with confidence that the projects 
now in sight may be relied upon to remove that cause for criticism. In the 
variety and extent of its industries it is among the first and its enterprising 
salesmen make its wares known in every hamlet throughout the land. 

Newark, thank fortune, is still more or less an old-fashioned city with old- 
fashioned ways. It has no idle rich. It looks askance at extravagant living. 
It sneers at ostentation. It goes to church — not as much as it should, but it 
remembers that it was founded by religious men for religious reasons. And 
it stands for the moralities in its private and public life. 

This is the dear old city in which we live and this is the city that will be 
two hundred and fifty years old next May and that thinks it is entitled to a 
birthday party. The people have provided the means, not by an appropri- 
ation from the public treasury, but out of their own pockets, an act that was 
generous and public spirited, and Mayor Haussling has appointed a com- 
mittee of one hundred to see the right thing done. The sub-committees have 
been at work now for many months and the entire program, in its general 
features, has been decided upon. They are spoken of with more or less full- 
ness in other columns of this issue. I know the work that has been done and 
that is being done and I am confident the result will be worthy of the great 
occasion." 



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MAYORS OF NEWARK 

William Halsey 1836 

Theodore Frelinghuysen 1837 

James Miller 1839 

Oliver Spencer Halstead 1840 

William Wright 1841 

Stephen Dod 1844 

Isaac Baldwin 1845 

Beach Vanderpool 1846 

James Miller 1848 

James M. Quinby 1851 

Horace J. Poinier 1854 

*Moses Bigelow 1857 

Theodore Runyon 1864 

Thomas B. Peddie 1866 

Frederick W. Ricord 1870 

Nehemiah Perry 1874 

Henry J. Yates 1876 

William H. F. Fielder 1880 

Henry Lang 1882 

Joseph E. Haynes 1884 

Julius A. Lebkuecher 1894 

James M. Seymour 1896 

Henry M. Doremus 1:j03 

Jacob Haussling 1907 

Thomas L. Raymond 1915 

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Newark's New City Flag. White Field, Jersey Blue Border, Gold Seal on Blue, 
Scroll Band Lettered in Blue. 



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Some Facts About Newark 

The Town of Newark was settled in May, 1666, by Puritans from Con- 
necticut. The concessions of the Lord Proprietors of New Jersey, dated 
February 10th, 1664, offered great inducements to settlers upon the land 
granted to them by Charles II. The recent union of the rival colonies of 
Connecticut and New Haven in one province had caused much dissatisfaction 
in many of the towns of the New Haven Colony. Accordingly, agents were 
dispatched from the Towns of Guilford, Branford and Milford to view the 
lands in New Jersey and ascertain the terms of purchase and settlement. 
Captain Robert Treat, John Curtiss, Jasper Crane and John Treat were the 
agents appointed for the purpose, and upon their favorable report to the 
inhabitants of the aforesaid towns, they were sent back to New Jersey and 
empowered to purchase a tract of land for a township. They selected a tract 
of land on the Passaic River, described as "lying beyond the marshes, to the 
north of Elizabethtown." 

In 1666, they purchased directly from the Indians, with the consent of the 
Hon. Philip Carteret, governor of the Province, the land which extended to 
the foot of Watchung Mountain, about seven or eight miles from Pesayak 
Towne, for 50 double hands of powder, 100 bars of lead, 20 axes, 20 coats, 
10 guns, 20 pistols, 10 swords, 10 kettles, 4 blankets, 4 barrels of beer, 2 pairs 
of breeathes, 50 knives, 20 hoes, 850 fathoms of wampum, 2 ankers of liquor 
(say 32 gallons) or something equivalent, and 3 troopers' coates, estimated to 
be of the value of 130 pounds, or $750.00 in United States money. The 
deed from the Indians, however, was not regularly executed until July 
11th, 1667. Eleven years later a second purchase was made, the two purchases 
covering a tract corresponding very nearly with the present County of Essex. 

There were about thirty families in the party that made the settlement, 
and it was agreed that six acres should be allotted to each and that the re- 
spective locations should be fixed by lot. One exception only was made to 
this arrangement in favor of Captain Robert Treat, who was to have eight 
acres to his lot, and be allowed to chose for himself the ground it should occupy. 

The town was called Milford, as many of the first settlers had come from 
the Towne of Milford, Conn., but a short time after, upon a formal organi- 
zation of the town government the name Milford was dropped and Newark 
was substituted in honor of Rev. Abraham Pierson, the first pastor, who came 
with the people of Branford and who was ordained in Newark-on-Trent, 
England. It was originally spelled "New Work" or "New Worke." 

The money and goods in the company were valued at about $64,000, an 
average for each of the thirty families of approximately $2,000. 

The community continued under the township form of government until 
1836, but during that time had twice been granted charters of incorporation. 

In 1713 Queen Anne granted a charter of incorporation, by which Newark 
was constituted a body politic, and corporate in law. The population at this 
time was about 300. 

In 1798 an Act of the Legislature was passed incorporating the inhabitants 
of the townships throughout the State. By virtue of that act, the people of 
the township of Newark received a new charter, which took place of the patent 
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The population in 1798 was about 2,500. In 1836 Newark was incorporated 
as a City, in the name of "The Mayor and Common Council of the City of 
Newark." The City Census, at this time, showed a population of 19,732. 

In 1857 a new charter was drawn up by a joint committee of citizens and 
members of the Common Council. 

This Charter was granted by the Legislature and is the one under which 
the City still exists. 




Newark's First School House, Lyons Farms 



The Memorial Building 

That something in a permanent form should be erected or established to 
remind future generations of Newark's 250th anniversary had been a frequent 
suggestion from the time the thought of the celebration was broached. Mayor 
Haussling presented the idea of a memorial building to the Committee of One 
Hundred at its organization meeting. The Committee itself took up the 
matter at the first opportunity and referred to a special committee of twenty- 
five the question of recommending what form the permanent memorial 
should take. The special committee appointed five of its members to analyse 
and formulate the suggestions that might be received. Each member of the 
Committee of One Hundred was particularly invited to submit views and the 
general public was asked through the press to make its sentiments known. 

Of the many replies received 90 per cent, favored a building as a permanent 
memorial. The Committee of Five so reported to the Committee of Twenty- 
five, which in turn reported to the full Committee of One Hundred. That body 
adopted the report as its own, and instructed a special committee of seven. 



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headed by Chairman Franklin Murphy, to take the necessary steps to carry 
out the project. The latter committee prepared a bill, which after amendment 
was passed at the legislature of 1915 and submitted to the voters of the city 
November 2, 1915. 

The law, as adopted by the voters, permits the city to sell bonds to the 
amount of $1,500,000 to purchase a site and pay for the erection of the per- 
manent memorial building. No more than $500,000 in bonds can be issued 
in any one year. The memorial building, it is proposed, shall provide quarters 
for the Newark Miiseum, whose valuable and rapidly growing collections are 
crowding the Public Library, shall contain a spacious auditorium for music 
festivals, conventions and other great public gatherings, shall provide facilities 
for other public bodies and shall generally serve public uses. 

Some features that have been proposed by citizens embrace a city uni- 
versity; public baths and gymnasium, and other features for the free use of all 
the people. 

During December the Memorial Building Committee selected a site on the 
southeast corner of Broad and Camp Streets, opposite Lincoln Park. This 
committee was composed of ex-Governor Franklin Murphy, chairman; Christian 
W. Feigenspan, John Cotton Dana, Forrest F. Dryden, Uzal H. McCarter 
and James R. Nugent. 

Referring to the decision of the committee, Mr. Murphy, Chairman of the 
Committee of One Hundred, and of the Memorial Building Committee, said: 

"The center of the city's population is at the corner of Kinney and Wash- 
ington streets; the growth of the city is southward and westward. The site is 
one of great beauty. Its low cost, undoubtedly, had a favorable effect on the 
Committee, and the construction of a great building on Lincoln Park will 
hasten the development of all property north to Market Street, and thus 

increase the revenues of the city I think the 

matters of convenience and accessibility were perhaps most influential with the 
committee. If you put a pair of dividers on the map, you will see that the site 
is as far south of Market Street as the Library is north. It can be reached by 
all the trolley lines of the city, either directly or with a single transfer." 

On Friday, Dec. 17th, the action of the committee was unanimously ratified 
by the Common Council of the city, and this was immediately approved by 
the Mayor. 

Of the $1,500,000 of 4>2% bonds authorized for the purchase of a site and 
erection of a Memorial Building, $500,000 were promptly sold at $107,573, 
the highest price for which a 4K% municipal bond has been sold hereabout for 
many years. The entire issue was taken by Remick, Hodges & Co., of New 
York. 

The Memorial Building Committee has engaged Warren Powers Laird, 
professor of architecture at the University of Pennsylvania, as consulting 
architect respecting the designs of the building. Referring to this, Mr. 
Murphy says: 

"There will be a preliminary competition confined exclusively to Newark 
architects. The two most successful in this preliminary work will be invited 
to present plans in the final competition, which will be participated in by 
perhaps seven of the chief architects of this country." 



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Work on the design and the building will begin immediately. While it 
cannot be completed during the year of the celebration, such progress may be 
made as to indicate to citizens and visitors the substantial character and beauty 
of this splendid monument of the city's anniversary. 

The belief that the Committee of One Hundred, in charge of the city's 
anniversary festivities, is also in charge of the plans for the erection of a 
Memorial Building, is erroneous. The Committee of One Hundred was 
appointed by Mayor Jacob Haussling and its official functions cease at the 
end of the anniversary celebration next autumn. The Memorial Building 
Committee was appointed by the Common Council of the City of Newark 
and its work will continue during a period of several years, until the Memorial 
Building has been erected and dedicated. That the gentlemen on the latter 
committee are also members of the former has created no legal relationship 
whatever between them. 

THE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY 

No. 5 Washington Street, at head of Washington Park. Incorporated 
1888. Original home at 14 West Park Street. Opened Oct. 17, 1889. Site 
of present building purchased 1897 for $153,750. Cornerstone laid Jan. 26, 
1899; building opened to public March 14, 1901. Cost, including furnishings, 
heating and lighting, $315,000. Librarian and secretary, John Cotton Dana. 
Hours, daily 9 A. M. to 9:30 P. M. Sundays and holidays, reading and 
technical rooms open 2 to 9 P. M.; all other departments closed. Volumes 
in main library, 227,000; loan circulation in 1915, 1,195,000 volumes. 

The exterior of the building resembles the Public Library, Boston. The 
interior is strikingly beautiful. The vestibule in white Italian marble and 
mosaic, opens into the central rectangular court, with wainscoting of marble, 
plaster frieze and ceiling decorated in color. The court is open to the sky- 
light roof, with hall-ways at each floor in the form of arcades surrounding 
the open centre space. An imposing broad marble stairway rises through the 
middle of the court. 

The equipment of the building embraces, in addition to the usual depart- 
ments and the Museum, a children's room, school department, lecture rooms, 
art gallery, and science museum. The book stacks are in a detached fire- 
proof building. 

The Newark Library is a splendid lesson to everyone who enters its doors. 
The beautiful marble in the inner court, the woodwork of quartered oak, 
simply treated, the right use of color, the pottery, bronzes, marbles, and 
paintings make the interior dignified and artistic. The Library keeps before 
the people the truest and best in art as a permanent object lesson. 

The Library has a prominent position in the educational life of the city, 
with its various lecture rooms for meetings of classes, clubs, educational and 
philanthropic societies. 

Branch Libraries 

15 Beaver Street, 81 Hayes Street, 261 Ogden Street, 497 Orange Street, 
198 Ferry Street, 518 Clinton Avenue, 18th Avenue corner South 17th Street, 
Lafayette School Branch. 



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THE NEWARK POETRY COMPETITION 

The Committee of One Hundred offers a series of thirteen prizes in 
gold, aggregating $1,000, for poems on Newarli and its 250th Anniversary. 

In this competition all the poets of our country are invited to participate. 

The prize poem on Newark and its Anniversary may touch on any or all of 
such topics as the city's historic aspects, its rapid industrial development, 
its civic and educational features, the chief purpose of its celebration — which 
is, to develop a wider and deeper public spirit. 

First Prize — two hundred and fifty dollars. 

Second Prize — one hundred and fifty dollars. 

Third Prize — one hundred dollars. 

Ten prizes of fifty dollars each. 

The Historical and Literary and the Publicity Committees of the Com- 
mittee of One Hundred have charge of this competition, and have established 
therefor the following rules: 

Poems submitted for the competition must not contain more than one 
thousand words. 

They must be typewritten on one side only of sheets of paper of letter size, 
about 8 by 11 inches. 

They must reach the office of the Committee on or before June 1st, 1916. 

They must be enclosed in sealed envelopes bearing only the name and 
address of this Committee. 

I They must not bear the names of their respective authors. 

Each must bear a fictitious name or a distinctive mark. 

This fictitious name or distinctive mark must be placed also on the outside 
of a second envelope. 

Within this second envelope must be a sheet of paper bearing the author's 
name and address, and this second envelope must be sealed and enclosed with 
the poem, in the envelope, addressed to the Committee. 

A competitor may submit two or more poems, but only one prize will be 
awarded to any author. 

The poems will be judged and the prizes awarded by a committee of seven 
named by this Committee, and the envelopes containing the names of the 
authors will not be opened until the prizes have been awarded. 

The specific subject, the meter and the style of the poems are left entirely 
to the judgment of their authors. They may be historical, biographical, 
philosophical or topical in subject matter; they may be serious, humorous 
or satiric in manner; they may be epic, lyric, or narrative in form. 

The Committee shall have the right to publish from time to time any 
of the poems submitted, and it shall be the owner of the poems for which 
prizes have been awarded, together with those which it may have included 
in its volume entitled "Newark's Anniversary Poems." 

The following have accepted the Committee's invitation to serve as 
judges in this competition: 

From Newark: Hon. Frederic Adams, Judge of the Circuit Court, State 
of New Jersey; Hon. Thos. L. Raymond, Counsellor-at-Law, and Mayor of 
Newark; Miss Margaret Coult, Head of English Department, Barringer 
High School; William S. Hunt, Associate Editor, Newark Sunday Call. 



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At large: Prof. John C. Van Dyke, Professor History of Art, Rutgers 
College; Lecturer Columbia, Harvard, Princeton; Author; Editor: Col- 
lege Histories of Art; History of American Art; — New Brunswick, New Jersey. 

Thomas L. Masson (Tom Masson), Literary Editor Life; Author; Editor 
Humorous Masterpieces of American Literature. 

Theodosia Garrison, Author: The Joy of Life and other Poems; Earth 
Cry and other Poems; Contributor to Magazines. 

The prize poems, with a selection from those submitted but not receiving 
prizes, will probably be published about August 1, 1916, in a volume to be 
called "Newark's Anniversary Poems." 

Address all communications to the Editor of The Newarker, Committee of 
One Hundred, Newark, New Jersey. 

THE CELEBRATION IN POSTER ART 

The Newark Poster as depicted on the front cover of the Manual is the 
work of Adolph Treidler, of 152 East 36th Street, New York City, winner 
of the first prize in the competition opened by the Committee of One Hundred 
to all residents of the United States. The judges who awarded the first 
and second prizes of $1,000 and $500 respectively were John Cotton Dana, 
J. H. Bacheller and Frederick J. Keer, of Newark, and Charles Matlack 
Price and Arthur W. Wiener, of New York City. The special prize of $300 
was decided by the vote of visitors to the public exhibition of the designs. 

The competitors numbered 166, and the designs over 200; and 64 won 
places in the traveling exhibit. The second prize was won by Helen Dryden, 
46 Washington Square, New York City, and the special prize by A. E. Foringer, 
Grantwood, N. J. 

The Newark Poster Exhibit closed in the Public Library October 31st and 
opened at the Anderson Galleries, 40th Street and Madison Avenue, New York 
City, November 12th, for a private view to editors and art critics. It was 
opened to the public November 15th and closed, after day and evening sessions, 
November 21st. Thence it went to Providence, Boston, Paterson, New 
Brunswick, Trenton, Passaic, Rochester, Buffalo, Cleveland, Philadelphia and 
Chicago, where it was on view when the Mamtal went to press. Its further 
schedule includes large cities all the way to the Pacific Coast. 

In a critical review of the prize-winning designs, C. Matlack Price, au- 
thor of "Posters" and one of the judges of the contest, says: 

"From purely academic points of drawing, the design which won the special 
prize by public vote would have won the first prize awarded by the judges, if 
this competition had been one of draughtsmanship rather than poster design. 
There is too much beautiful allegorical imagery in the stately figure, carrying 
attributes of industry and standing on a winged wheel of progress. It is a 
painting in character with such superb murals as the work by E. H. Blashfield in 
the Essex County Court House — and far more suited to mural decoration than 
to use as a poster. Its color scheme is as subdued and refined as its drawings — 



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but it is a thing to be seen at close range, as on a program cover. Reduced to 
the dimensions of a poster stamp, it would fail to attract the necessary amount 
of attention. As a window "hanger," which is intended for inspection at 
fairly close range, this design would have made up for its lack of qualities de- 
sirable in a poster by its strong values of dignity, refinement and beautiful 
drawing. 

"The poster which won the first prize might hardly be classed as unequal 
to the first in this question of drawing and in addition it is rendered in unde- 
niably admirable poster technique— a drawing as forceful as a poster stamp 
as it would be if it were reproduced fifty feet high. It is appropriate in two 
particulars — that it graphically suggests an anniversary, and is confined in its 
historical reference to the founding of the city of Newark. The masses are 
splendidly bold, the composition striking and the coloring is brilliant without 
lack of harmony. Above all it is a poster of dignity — -the figure of Robert 
Treat looming up in strong and impressive profile against the sky. It is a 
design which could not fail to arrest attention, and, having done so, to hold it 
until the story is conveyed. For these reasons it is a good poster — nor could 
the artist have incorporated in this design any suggestion of the carnival phase 
of celebration without destroying the dignity of the phase he selected as the 
keynote. 

"The design which won the second prize is bright and colorful, with a dis- 
tinct note of cheerfulness. In it the costumes may be accepted as distinctly 
those of a masquerade — in fact, as symbolic of the idea of carnival and fes- 
tivity. The scale of the figures is dangreously small, but the whole design 
might be analyzed as of an essentially decorative nature — the figures being not 
a feature, but merely a decorative motive, of symbolic value, and no more a 
part of the whole design than the lettering." 




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At almost any hour of the Jay children may be seen at play on Borglum's 
statue of Lincoln in front of the Court House at Newark. 



PRIZE HISTORICAL ESSAY CONTEST 

An interesting feature of the celebration will be the prize essay contest 
among the pupils of the public and parochial schools on the founding and 
history of the city. For this contest, the New York Times, hoping to stimu- 
late in the future citizens an interest equally as keen as that moving their 
elders, will award approximately five hundred Tiffany silver medals and five 
hundred engraved certificates of merit to the pupils in the public and parochial 
schools who shall write the best compositions on the subject, based upon a 
series of articles which were published in the New York Times April 24-30 
from the pen of J. Wilmer Kennedy, Assistant Superintendent of the Newark 
City Schools, who has made a special study of the history of the city. 

The competition has the endorsement of the Newark Board of Education 
and of the authorities of the parochial schools. Dr. A. B. Poland, City 
School Superintendent, is arranging to have the preparation of the essays 
made a part of the regular school work in English composition. The Reverend 
Father Dillon, Superintendent of the parochial schools, has also warmly 
endorsed the idea. 

Full information and details of the competition will appear in The New 
York Times in due course. 



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WOMEN'S PART IN THE CELEBRATION 
The Committee of Fifty 

Mayor Thomas L. Raymond, with his characteristic enthusiasm for 
Newark's anniversary celebration, adopted the suggestion made to him by 
Chairman Franklin Murphy of the Committee of One Hundred, and appointed 
fifty representative women of Newark as a committee to participate in and 
enliven the social phases of the celebration. 

This was a wise appointment. The women of Newark can do much 
to enhance the casual as well as the permanent interest in the anniversary 
year. They can give tone and color and impart vivacity to its social and 
ethical aspects. Newark has been socially dormant since the death of that 
charming chatelaine whose home of a thousand memories is about to be razed 
to make room for the new Memorial Building. But this is the year of its 
rejuvenation, and the Committee of Fifty, guided by the rare tact and effective 
energies of its chairman, Mrs. George Barker, will see to it that Newark, 
society, in its most democratic sense, will become an animate, a spirited ele- 
ment in our significant anniversary events. 

There will be numerous parties at the Music Festival, at the Industrial Ex- 
position, the Pageant, the Athletic Events, Horse Races, and the world-famed 
Amateur Athletic Union Championships on September 8th and 9th. 

Privately every family in the city can enhance the social spirit by enter- 
taining its friends and going beyond that charmed circle and including its 
enemies; for is this not a year of bigger and broader social philosophy, of a 
sounder civic life, a nobler ideal of our city, state and country, and of the 
flag that dignifies their well-being.'' 

(The names of the members of the Committee of Fifty will be found else- 
where, in the official list of committees of the Celebration.) 

Mrs. Henry H. Dawson thus aptly discusses: 

Newark Women and the Celebration Spirit 

When an old colored preacher was asked the secret of the success of his 
sermons he replied, "First I 'splains, den I 'spounds, and den I puts in de 
rousements." The Newarker may explain and expound the anniversary pro- 
gram, but Newark women may arouse enthusiasm so that our celebration 
will be not a mere succession of events, but a thing of life, aglow with joy and 
happiness, spontaneously fruitful. 

To overcome a possible indifference, or a mere passing interest in the 
event, an inspiration as to its real value will come by attending the Pageant. 
Let every Newark woman, whether a descendant of the founders or a recent 
arrival from foreign shores, or an ordinary resident, allow nothing to prevent 
her from seeing this Play. As the history of our city passes before us in song 
and pantomine, a strange weird feeling arises and diffuses itself; the sense 
of individuality is lost for a time, and one becomes absorbed in the com- 
munity spirit; a civic consciousness awakens; the meaning of the word 
"Newark" dawns upon one. If thoroughly awakened, the individual realizes 
a race responsibility, which becomes a permanent possession, sometimes a 
ruling passion. 



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After inspiration, what? The training of this desire to help, by proper 
education. At this point our celebration is teeming with opportunity. Ex- 
hibits of the various phases of the city's life will crowd around us. 

We pause, on our 250th birthday, to look up from our regular daily rou- 
tine, to gaze around about us, and to have our horizons widened. 

The ordinary woman is interested in her family life, her "charities," her 
"church work," perhaps her club, or the amusements of a small circle of 
friends. May she not realize now, that city life is a larger family life, and 
that she belongs to it? 

If so, then we must know who are the members of this family. What 
money is spent in rearing and caring for it? Are the houses sanitary, the 
streets clean and beautiful? Are Newark's babies properly cared for? What 
playgrounds are given to the children? What sports and "shows" to the 
juniors? What art, music, drama, lectures and books are obtainable by the 
grown-ups? What opportunities offered to the foreign born, to the stranger, 
to the unfortunate in mind, body or estate? How are private and public in- 
stitutions co-operating along these lines? 

What are Newark's products? What should be its next step as a commer- 
cial city? What is the state of trade and manufacture? 

How is our school system organized for business, and for teaching? What 
are the varied activities in our schools? What religious influences are at 
work in Newark? What moral safe-guarding of youth? 

The answers to these questions and to many more may ge found in the 
exhibits. Women should study them, talk about them, take notes and bring 
reports to their organizations for future discussions. 

Opportunity is like a revolving door. Let us be careful to slip in at the 
right moment. Why should not women's church societies choose some phase 
of city life, and work for its betterment? Revise constitution and by-laws 
to admit such work if need be. The spirit of the celebration will find a lasting 
home in such a society, and the civic effort of that society will date from the 
anniversary year, 1916, a fitting time to add new life. 

Best of all, the auditorium of the Memorial Building may become not only 
a Hall for Conventions or for Concerts, but a gathering place for the city 
family in various groups, where best methods of producing desired results 
may be considered, and unification of effort be attained, so that we may 
grow symmetrically. What possibilities lie just ahead of us? 

There is an old saying, "A chain is no stronger than its weakest link." 
May we not also say, "A city cannot rise higher than its home life?" If 
through an enthusiastic participation in the celebration, all Newark women 
realize the vital connection between the homes of the city and the various 
phases of city life, the spirit of the celebration will have done its work, and 
with the effort to give normal home-life to all classes, there will arise a new 
Newark, full of glorious April promise. "It is not raining rain today, it's 
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Helpful aspects of women's club life in Newark are described by Mary 
Depue Ogden under the head: 

Women's Activities 

Improvements in modern life have brought much leisure to women. 
They no longer are called on to "bake, brew and sew" in addition to rearing 
large families of children. Though relieved of one line of cares, their hands 
and brains are no less active. 

Mental and artistic development, and participation in charitable and 
sociological work occupy the spare time of the women of Newark, as exem- 
plified in the activities of their many clubs and social organizations, some of 
which have been performing their quiet but efficient duties for twenty years 
or more. 

The Saturday Club is one of the earliest of these organizations. Its 
objects are literary and philanthropic, and its members are among the very 
progressive and intellectual women of the city. This club has given special 
attention to the George Junior Republic and to welfare work in the Pine Belt 
of New Jersey. Mrs. James A. Solandt is president of the Saturday Club. 

The Travelers Club has a history of 25 years, and its membership is con- 
fined to the Roseville section, where the bi-weekly meetings are held in homes 
of members. The Club makes detailed study of all parts of the world and 
its motto is: "Earn thy reward; the gods give naught to sloth." 

Miss EUastine Seitz is president of the Curtomis Club, which devotes its 
attention to the study of art, habits and customs in the cities of Europe. In 
1916 its theme is South America. 

The New Jersey Historical Society has a Woman's Branch which takes 
charge of all social affairs of the Society and collects historical data. 

The Salamagundi devotes itself to history, book reviews, and higher 
literary studies. Mrs. William H. Warner is president. 

Philitscipoma is the name of a club which makes a study of music, litera- 
ture, and drama. Its president is Mrs. James M. Seymour. 

One of the most important and enterprising of the women's clubs of 
Newark is the Contemporary of which Miss Frances Hays is president. 
This body of women is taking an especially active interest in all phases of 
Newark's great Celebration. 

The Forest Hill Reading Club makes a study of the modern drama. 

There are many other literary and social clubs among women, all of 
which are doing some specific civic work, and exercising an influence for good 
in the community. 

Musical clubs are also numerous. 

The Lyric Club gives two concerts each season, conducted by Arthur D. 
Woodruff. The club has a discriminating membership, devoted to the higher 
musical art. Its president is Mrs. Jay Ten Eyck. The membership is about 
1400. The club was organized in 1900. 

The College Woman's Club, of which Miss Marie Wolfs is president, 
maintains seven scholarships at Women's Colleges, the money for which is 
raised by the Club's dramatic and musical entertainments. 



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The Council of Jewish Women is a branch of the National order of that 
name. Mrs. Mason Weinburg is president of the local society, which sup- 
ports a Jewish Neighborhood House with paid workers to look after immi- 
grant girls. The Society discusses all phases of the Sociological problem, 
with a view to finding useful and workable solutions. 

The Personal Service Club aims to help anyone needing aid, whether in 
its workroom, at No. 159 Kinney Street, or in their homes. 

The Municipal Art League, of which Mrs. Frances Pell is president, de- 
votes its attention to all branches of civic betterment. This society is now 
in process of reorganization on broader and more comprehensive lines. 

Mrs. James Howard is president of the Ray Palmer Club, which began 
as the "Chatauqua" in 1888. This Club has a large membership, and is 
accomplishing much good in civic affairs. 

The Essex County Teachers' Guild has a membership of over 600, and 
concerns itself with the general welfare and uplift of the teachers' profession. 

Another large club is the Irving, which gives special attention to Women's 
Colleges, registration of births, and public welfare. 

THE BOY SCOUTS OF NEWARK 

In the early days of April there was an active campaign for the purpose 
of putting the Boy Scout movement in Newark on a permanent and busi- 
nesslike basis, by establishing executive offices in the city and securing the 
services of a paid executive who will give all his time to the work. 

If President Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, David Starr Jordan, Judge Ben 
Lindsey, Wm. Fellowes Morgan, Major-General Wood, General George W. 
Wingate, Luther Burbank, Dr. Luther H. Gulick, Dr. G. Ward Crampton, 
Dr. D. L. Sargent, Mortimer L. Schiff, George W. Perkins, John Finley and 
dozens of other such men emphatically indorse a thing it must be worth 
while looking into. 

What, then, is this thing Boy Scouting.' The Handbook says it is a 
movement for developing character and eflaciency among adolescent boys. 
Those who are interested in it like to think it is more than that — that it is a 
spirit abroad in our nation for the welfare of our boys — a spirit with many man- 
ifestations. A spirit of service, by clean, manly men for boys who need that 
service; a spirit of patriotism, for a country which needs to be stirred to 
patriotism now and again; a spirit of civic help, teaching boys that they 
are citizens of the Nation, the State, and of no mean city, from their youth 
up; a spirit of clean living, of health, of the out-of-doors, dowering our boys 
with that priceless dowry, a love of the fresh, crisp air, of hardihood, of good 
sportsmanship, of daring, all of which work together to fit our boys for their 
parts as citizens. Scouting is a jewel of many facets; you can do anything 
good you please, and call it Scouting, thus attaching to that thing the prestige 
among boys and men, of the name, the sign and the brown uniform. 

Both the school and the church can learn valuable lessons from the Boy 
Scout movement in the matter of teaching. Scoutcraft teaching is practical 
and useful. It helps one to live, to be happy and to make others happy, and 
to make one's country "a better place to live in." That is, it makes the 
boy a good citizen. Here is a list of a few of the things they are taught: — 



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Kinney Building, Broad and INIarket Strecls 
Headquarters Committee of One Hundred 




The Prudential Insurance Building — Example of 
Newark's Industrial Architectural Beauty 



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Agriculture, gardening, blacksmithing, carpentry, masonry, business, civics, 
conservation, cooking, dairying, "first aid," life saving, music, machinery, 
personal and public health, physical development, swimming, seamanship 
and pathfinding. 

There are many other things of the same practical use taught in Scoutcraft, 
and these things are in the line of real education. They are taught reverence 
for the good, the true and the beautiful, duty to one's self and others, fidelity 
to the right and to conscience, loyalty to parents, friends, government and 
country, courtesy and kindness to everything and everybody, fraternity 
and love to the whole human family, courage to do right, to face trouble and 
danger with a smile and a will, and cleanliness of body, mind and soul. 

PHOTOGRAPHIC COMPETITION AND EXHIBITION 

The Newark Camera Club, Inc., which is the second oldest Camera Club 
in the United States, being organized in 1888 and whose object is to promote 
and cultivate the science of photography, proposes to conduct a Photographic 
Competition and Exhibition for amateurs who take photographs of the decora- 
tions of the Celebration. 

All amateur photographers who visit our city, as well as all amateur 
photographers residing in Newark are eligible and are cordially invited to 
enter pictures. The Club believes that during this celebration that among 
the thousands of people from Newark and those who visit our city there will 
be many who will record with the camera the Street Parade and Decorations, 
the Night Illuminations, the beautiful Feigenspan Statue, etc., all of which 
will be taken from many varying points of vantage, at different times, with 
different atmospheric conditions. The pictures will be exhibited to the public 
in the Free Public Library, if available, or some other public building; date 
to be announced later. 

The pictures will be judged by a jury of selection which will consist of 
three competent and disinterested persons, one each to be selected by the 
Newark Evening News, Sitndai/ Call and Newark Star-Eagle. 

The club will offer seven beautiful solid gold, silver and bronze medals 
suitably engraved for the best pictures to be classified as follows: 

A Gold Medal will be awarded to the best print in the Exhibition. 

Silver and Bronze Medals will be awarded to the two best prints in each 
of the following classes: 

Class A — Street decorations. 

Class B — Night illuminations. 

Class C — Feigenspan Statue. 

Honorable mention in the various classes may be also given at the discre- 
tion of the Jury of Selection. The awarding of all prizes and honorable men- 
tions are with the understanding that the winning prints are to become the 
property of the Club, and may be reproduced for publication and that the club 
may have the loan of the negatives if necessary for reproduction purposes. 

Rules for Competition 

To win a prize a picture must have been exposed by the exhibitor though 
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pictures are often more effective if enlarged. Pictures may be of any size; 
8 by 10 inches or larger are preferred. They must be mounted, but not 
framed and have plainly written on back: 

Title of picture. 

Name and address of maker. 

Class to be entered into. 

The opening date of the competition will be the opening date of the Cele- 
bration and the closing date will be the closing date of the Celebration. All 
pictures to be entered in the Competition and Exhibition must be in the hands 
of the Committee not later than twenty days after the Celebration closes. 
Not more than five pictures will be accepted from any one exhibitor. No 
person can win more than one prize in any one class. 

THE CELEBRATION DECORATIVE SCHEME 

To a Newark architect, Mr. Jordan Green, was awarded the prize of 
$500 offered by the Parades and Decoration Committee for the best plan for 
street decoration for the celebration. The committee unanimously endorsed 
the selection made by Henry Baechlin and Gilbert C. Higby, the two archi- 
tects who had been appointed to examine and advise upon the plans sub- 
mitted. The official Anniversary colors, adopted by the Executive and Fi- 
nance and the Parades and Decorations Committees, are the orange and 
black of the University of Princeton, whose first home and inspiration was in 
Newark. At the intersection of Broad and Market Streets, four ornamental 

plaster pylons are placed, one at each of the four corners. These pylons are 
six feet square and twenty-six feet high, and surmounted by a figure seven 
feet high symbolizing commerce and industry. At the important centers 
of interest throughout the central part of the city, namely, Washington, 
Military, and Lincoln Parks, Essex County Court House, Pennsylvania Rail- 
road Station, etc., forty-eight additional pylons are placed. These pylons 
are similar to those at the corner of Broad and Market Streets, and are six 
feet square and twenty-two feet high. The lighting poles along the two main 
Streets are decorated with bunting, flags, and festoons. The official colors of 
the celebration, orange and black, give the dominating effects to the color 
scheme. Electrical streamers and festoons suspended between the lighting 
poles provide brilliant illumination, completing the decorative scheme and 
making possible a continuous display. 

The Architect's Interpretation 

Mr. Green gives the following interpretation of the decorative scheme: 
"The general scheme for the decoration of the city provides for the em- 
bellishment of the two principal streets. Broad and Market Streets, and the 
buildings fronting thereon. These streets, which are in plan in the form of 
a cross, intersect at the commercial heart of the city and terminate at their 
end at points of interest, namely city parks. County House and rail- 
road stations. At the P. R. R. Station a Court of Welcome is provided, com- 
prised of an imposing historical monument surrounded by a covered colon- 
nade. At Lincoln Park a Monumental Court of Honor is planned and the 



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intersection of Broad and Market Streets is covered by an impressive dome 
executed in various colors. The intersecting streets are spanned by appro- 
priate arches, columns, etc. The street lighting poles along the front are 
decorated and covered with historical, industrial and commercial flags and 
banners which are connected by festoons to illuminate at night. Reviewing 
stands are provided for all needs. Symbolical scuplture is employed and at 
night the whole decorative scheme is brilliantly illuminated." 

The Poster Catalogue 

Owing to their great merit, and the wide attention given to the Newark 
Anniversary Posters, the Committee of One Hundred has issued an illustrated 
catalogue of these posters for the benefit of art and print collectors, artists 
and students in all parts of the country. 

The catalogue contains a large number of half-tone reproductions, and 
portraits of the prize winning artists, while the three posters which won the 
$1,000, $500 and $300 prizes are exquisitely printed in colors. 

The edition is limited, and copies of it will be in demand by collectors 
within a short time. Applications for it, if accompanied by payment, will be 
filled in the order in which they are received. Price, postage paid, in the 
United States, 25 cents. 

PROGRAM OF EVENTS 

May 1. 8 A. M. — Salutes, Music, Church Bells and Factory Whistles. 

10 A. M. — Parade of Local National Guard — Boy Scouts and other Or- 
ganizations, Gen. Edwin S. Hine, Commanding. 

Historic Ceremonies in Proctor's Palace Theatre at 2 P. M., for- 
mally opening the 250th Anniversary of the Founding of Newark 
in 1666. 

2 P. M.— 

Overture Selected 

Newark Musicians' Club Orchestra 
Assisted by Local No. 16 American Federation of Musicians — 
C. Mortimer Wiske, Conductor. 
"America" Newark Musicians' Club 

Chorus, Orchestra and Audience 
Invocation Rt. Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D.D. 

Anthem — "Union and Liberty" Horatio Parker 

Newark Musicians' Club Chorus of Sixteen Voices — Direction of 
Frank C. Mindnich. 

Dedicatory Address Franklin Murphy, 

Chairman Committee of One Hundred 
Address — The City Hon, Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor 

Address — The State His Excellency James F. Fielder, 

Governor of New Jersey 



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Address — Brief Heininisceiices of Fifty Years Ago 

Hon. James L. Hays 
Overture Weber 

Orchestra 

Celebration Ode, Reading by the Author 

Lyman Whitney Allen, D.D. 

Historic Address Hon. Francis J. Swayze, 

Justice of the Supreme Court of N. J., 
President of the N. J. Historical Society 
Festival March Henry Hadley 

Orchestra 

"Star-Spangled Banner" Newark Musicians' Club Chorus 

Orchestra and Audience 

Benediction Rt. Rev. John J. O'Connor, 

Assisted by Rt. Rev. Monsignor Isaac P. Whelan. 

May 1. Opening Day. Music Festival, to last until May 4, inclusive. 
Six performances. First Regiment Armory. 

Addresses on the opening night by Wallace M. Scudder, President 
Newark Music Festival Association, Franklin Murphy, Mayor 
Thomas L. Raymond and Uzal H. McCarter. Invocation by Rabbi 
Solomon Foster. 

May 3, 4, 5 Ordinary Agencies" (Prudential Insurance Company) 8th An- 
nual Convention, bringing in delegates from all parts of the United 
States. 

May 4. National Championship Wrestling of U. S. (Trials). National Turn 
Verein, 211 Bruce Street. 

May 4-5. Improved Order of Redmcn, Grand Council Convention. 

May 6. National Championship Wrestling of U. S. (Finals). National 
Turn Verin, 211 Bruce Street. 

May 6. Second Annual Dual Athletic Meet, Central Com. and Manual 
Training High School, and East Orange High School, Weequahic Park. 

May 5, 19. First Presbyterian Church Participation. 

May 9. Banquet to Sporting Editors of New Jersey, New York, Pennsyl- 
vania, Delaware, etc. 

May 9, 10. Congregational Conference of New Jersey at the First Con- 
gregational Church; with unveiling of a tablet placed to the honor of the 
"Founders" of Newark by the Conference. 

May 10. Dedication of 3 Civic Monuments, at Puritan Landing Place, 
Branford Place and at the Public Library. 

Unveiling of a Tablet marking site of the parsonage of Dr. Aaron Burr, 
Broad and William Streets, by Princeton Club. 

May 11, 12. Volunteer Newark Tour through the State of New Jersey, 
under the auspices of the New Jersey Auto and Motor Club. 



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May 12. New Jersey Day. 

Musical Pageant, First Presbyterian Chiircli. 
May 13. President Wilson's Day, Opening Newark's Industrail Ex- 
position. 




A View of Newark's Industrial Exposition Booths 



Banquet to the President, by the Newark Board of Trade, Robert 

Treat Hotel. 
Opening of the Robert Treat Hotel, Newark. 
Gymnastic Championships, of the A. A. U. of tlie United States 

at Y. M. C. A., 8 P. M. 
Annual Parade, The Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Reception by the Women's Committee of Fifty to the Wives of the 
Committee of One Hundred and the Committee of Three Hundred, 
and to other Ladies. — The Washington, 4 to 6 P. M. 
May 13, 17. Congress of Sons of the American Revolution. 
May 15. Knights of Columbus — Night Parade. 
May 16. Knights of Columbus — Convention Day. 



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May 17. Founders' Day. 

2 P. M. — Parade of New Jersey National Guard and Civic and Fra- 
ternal Bodies. Hon. R. Wayne Parker, Grand Marshal; Major 
Wni. H. Canifield, Grand Marshal Civic and Fraternal Bodies. 




The Iris CosLiimes of Newark's Pageant 



8 P. M. — Special Religious and Historic Ceremonies in First Presby- 
terian Church, His Honor Mayor Thomas L. Raymond, Rev. Wm. 
J. Dawson, D.D., Gov. James F. Fielder of New Jersey, Gov. Mar- 
cus H. Holcomb of Connecticut, and former Governor Franklin 
Murphy, Chairman Committee of One Hundred, will speak, and 
other distinguished men and women, including descendents of 
Robert Treat and the Founders of Newark, will attend. 
Special Music; an oration by Dr. Dawson; Prayer. 

May 17. Knights of Columbus Banquet. 

May 18, Tall Cedars of Lebanon parade, ceremonial and banquet, 



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May 18-19. Special services Friday evening and Saturday morning — 
Temple B'nai Jeshurun. 

May 18, 19, 20. Amateur Boxing Championship A. A. U., Palace Ball Room. 
Auspices A. A. U. 

May 19. Nova Caesarea Chapter Daughters of American Revolution to 
place memorial tablet, Camping Ground, Woodside Phillips Park. May 
16th alternative date. 

Opera under auspices of the Prudential Insurance Company Athletic 
Association, "The Sultan of Sulu." 

May 19, 20. Know Your City Day — Auspices Committee of Fifty. Visit the 

City's philanthropic, educational and private and public institutions. 
May 20. Unveiling of bronze tablet by South Side High School, on Divident 
Hill, Weequahic Park. 

Field Games, Princeton Club of Newark, Weequahic Park. 
May 20, 21. Special .\nniversary Services in all Churches and Synagogues. 
May 21. Union Jewish Service Temple B'nai Jeshurun. 
May 22. Convention New Jersey State Association Master Plumbers, and 

Exhibits. 
May 23. Banquet and Ball of above. 
May 24. Exhibits of above. 

May 25. Knights of Pythias Field Day and Parade. 
May 25, 26. Golf Championship of the City of Newark, Forest Hill 

Links. 
May 27. 3 P. M. — Bohemian Clubs and Lodges Parade. 
May 27. 2 P. M. — Parade Essex County Junior Christian Endeavor Annual 

Rally. 
May 28. Open-air Union Religious Service Weequahic Park at Pageant 

Ampitheatre, capacity 40,000. 
May 30, 31. The Newark Historic Pageant — (8 P. M.). 4,000 actors, a 
June 1, 2. band of 92 pieces, amphitheatre, capacity 40,000. Seats on Sale, 

Lauters, 593 Broad Street. 
May 30. 9 A. M. — Parade, Grand Army of the Republic, First Regiment, 
Essex Troops , Spanish War Veterans, Local Cadets, Junior Order of 
United American Mechanics, Playground Children. 
2 P. M. — Parade Italian-American State League. 

State Association of P. O. Clerks entertained by Branch 17, United 
National Association of P. O. Clerks. 
June 1. Close of Newark Anniversary Poem Competition. 
June 2. Parade, ceremonial. Salaam Temple, Ancient Arabic Order Nobles 

of the Mystic Shrine. 
June 3. June Walk Sunday Schools of Essex County, 2 P. M. 
Parade Loyal Order of Moose. 
Reception Huron Club — Krueger Auditorium. 
Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of N. J, 



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June 6. Public and Parochial School Parade. 

Woodmen of the World. Convention, Continental Hotel — Night 
Parade. 
June 6-9. Convention International Association Chiefs of Police. 

Parade, Banquet, etc. 




Dances al the Pageant 



June 7. Parade Independent Order of Foresters. 

June 8. 3 P. M. — Physical Training Exhibition, Weequahic Park— High 

Schools. 
June 9. 3 P. M. — Physical Training Exhibition, Weequahic Park — Elemen- 
tary Schools. 

Prudential Golf Tournaments, June and October. 
Prudential Tennis Tournaments during summer and fall. 



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June 9. Prudential Home OfBce Baseball League of eight Clubs playing 
series throughout the summer. 
Prudential Athletes will enter all open athletic competitions. Possi- 
ble participation of the Prudential in parades and in pageant. 
June 10. Spanish-American War Veteran's Day. 

American Federation of Homing Pigeon Fanciers. 
Parade of German Societies. 
June 10. National Interscholastic Track and Field Events, Weequahic 

Park. 
June 11-12. Annual Celebration Turners and United Singers of Newark, 

Concert afternoon and evening. 
June 13. E.xempt Firemen's Association of Newark Parade. 
June 14. Junior Order of United American Mechanics — Parade and Field 

Day. 
June 15. Parade Fraternal Order of the Eagles. 

Orphans' Day Outing — Parade. 
June 16. N. J. State Organization United Brotherhood Carpenters' Con- 
vention. 
June 16. Prudential Field Day Exercises with atheltic events of all kinds, 

and girls' contests. 
June 16, 17. Annual Convention Grand Council of New Jersey and Delaware 

and United Commercial Travelers. 
Jime 17. Surf Casting Tournament. 

Afternoon Parade Lithuanian Society. 

Afternoon Motor cycle parade, auspices N. J. Motor Cycle Club. 
Harness Racing — Boad Horse Association of N. J. 
Field Day, Vailsburg Park, Independent Order of Foresters 
June 19. Independent Order of Good Templars (tentative). 
June 19-23. Springfield Avenue Merchants' Week. 
June 24. Elementary Schools City Athletic Championships. 
Dates to be fixed: 

Royal Arcanum Parade. 
School Exhibits. 
Art Exhibits. 

Trades and Industrial Parade. 
Automobile Parade. 
Historical and Municipal Parade. 
June 25. Military Field Mass— Weequahic Park — Knights of Columbus. 
June 29. Annual banquet of Lyceum N. J. College of Chiroproctors, Con- 
tinental Hotel. 
July 3. Polish Day — Polish Falcom Convention, Polish Alliance of New 

Jersey. Afternoon parade (15,000 in line). 
July 4. Fireworks Display, Weequahic Park (under consideration). 
Prudential Excursion to Seashore early in July. 
Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
July 8. 2 P. M. — United Slavic Societies of Newark — Native costume (8,000 
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July 8. Championship Cricket match. Newark Cricket Club and Essex 

Club and Essex County Cricket Club. 
July 15. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
July 20-21-22. Inter-Club Matinee of the Junior League of Amateur 

Driving Clubs. 
July 29. Canoeing — New Jersey State Championship. 
Aug. 5. Harness Racing— Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Aug. 15. Foresters of Ameiica, Field Day and Night Parade. 
Aug. 19. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Aug. 23-24-25-26. International Bait and Fly Casting Tournament. 
Aug. 26. Scottish Day at Wiedenmayer's Park. 

Award of $1,000 in Cash Prizes, Newark's Anniversary Poem Competi- 
tion. 
Sept. 2. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Sept. 3-4. 7th Annual Convention Associated Young Men's and Young 

Women's Hebrew Associations of N. J. 
Sept. 4. Labor Day Parade. 

Sept. 6-7-8-9. National Convention, League of American Munici- 
palities. 

Luncheon by Mayor Thos. L. Raymond to attending Mayors. 
National Convention, American Society of Sanitary Engineers and 
Plumbing Inspectors. 
Sept. 8-9. Field and Track National Championships, A. A. U. The 

largest 1916 Athletic Events in the World. Weequahic Park. 
Sept. 11, 12. State Convention, Benevolent and Protective Order of 

Elks. Parade 2,500 in line. Banquet. 
Sept. 11-12-13-14-15-16. International Steam and Operating Engineers' 

Convention and Exhibition — Krueger Auditorium. 
Sept. 14. Annual Reunion of Kearny's First New Jersey Brigade 

Society, composed of the surviving members of the First, Second, Third, 

Fourth, Tenth, Fifteenth, Twenty-third, Fortieth Regiments of New 

Jersey Volunteers. 
Sept. 16. National All-Round Championship A. A. U. Weequahic 

Park. 
Sept. 16. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Sept. 20. Boy Scouts Field Day and Rally — Weequahic Park. 
Sept. 20. Order Sons of Italy — Celebration and Parade, 3,000 in line. 
Sept. 30. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Oct. 14. Harness Racing — Road Horse Association of New Jersey. 
Oct. 15-29. Exhibition at Newark Museum Assn. — 3rd floor. Library — 

of Competition prints under auspices of Newark Camera Club. 

Sundays, 2-9 P. M.; Week days, 12-6.30, 7.30-9.30. 
Oct. 20. Newark Camera Club Photographic Contest Awards. 
Oct. 30. Publication Memorial Volume. 



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THE PAGEANT AND THE CELEBRATION 

In making a festival for the two hundred and fifty years of Newark's 
achievement, it is most reasonable that Newark should take one clear look at 
the life of these years as they passed by. It is lo make this glimpse the 
clearer that the pageant is to be produced. After all, the city is not celebrating 
its mere duration; it is celebrating the growth through that duration, of its 
community life. 

The pageant given at Weequahic Park will set forth in broad, graphic 
action the successive phases of the city's experiences. To the younger 
generation the study of history in books, especially of local his- 
tory, is likely to have but a limited significance. Events must 
b^ seen, historical words must be heard, and the whole must bt 
suffused with the dramatic feeling which accompanies the crises of the strug- 
gle, in order that these years may live again in our imaginations. 

This problem — the problem of making the past speak of itself, potently, in 
ringing tones, is the problem which the pageant attacks. It goes about this 
work directly. Have we in the history a time when the Puritan spirit was 
driven by its own sense of righteousness to this place; when the founders 
moored their boats and made their bargains . This the time pageant sets 
before our eyes. The founders, in their character and habit as they lived 
move and speak, and have their being; the establishment of the town, its 
consistencies, its prejudices, its ideals — all these things reach the audience 
of the pageant easily and dii-ectly. The growing feeling of insubordination 
to the exactions of the proprietors and that greater discontent which followed 
and which culminated in the stirring scenes of the revolution can be readily 
portrayed. 

The growth of the modern city through the less isolated but frequently 
very important events of the first halt of the Nineteenth Century furnish us, 
roughly speaking, another act in the drama, and after all it is this sequence 
of events — this cumulative common experience — that gives motive and mean- 
ing to our celebration as a whole. 

So it is most fitting that the pageant should be the first phasi of the cele- 
bration; and having looked back over its two and a half centuries of life, 
the city may then turn its attention to its living present and its festival year. 

Beautiful Scenes of Newark's Pageant 

{From The NewarJcer) 
When you come to the pageant you arrive at a hilltop and look down upon 
a great amphitheatre. It is after sunset and from the hill you catch faint 
glimpses of the city in the after-glow. Below you in the great natural bowl 
of the pageant ground you see a ribbon of quiet water reflecting the tops of 
great trees beyond an open space. This space is the stage proper and the 
woods constitute the back drop. The lagoon lies where you might expect 
the footlights to be. On the near side of the water is the orchestra pit and 
the seating for the chorus, and behind these the great sloping fan-shaped 
grandstand — a theatre without galleries, open to the sky, where forty thous- 
and spectators may be easily accommodated, where the ventilation is perfect 
and barring actual matters of distance, where one seat is about as good as 
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You take your seat as the overture begins and as it progresses a mist arises 
and Veils the stage. It is growing dark. You are conscious of th'.^ great 
breathing crowd around you but bc-yond the waters, nothing is clearly dis- 
cernible. Then a moving light on the water catches your eye. It is a lantern 
carried high aloft and for a moment the darkness is pierced by a ray of light. 
The lantern is at the masthead of a 16th century caravel which seems to pick 
its way through the mist. As it passes another light flickers up on shore — a 
fire, and around it you see vaguely at first a great group of Indians dancing. 
As the fire grows higher the shadows s.-em to dance above them — tremendous 
distorted shadows on the wall of mist. The caravel passes. As the music 
changes the Indian dance changes to a pantomime representing through war 
and savage heraldry the great legend of the Leni Lenape, the aboriginal In- 
dians of East Jersey. A second ship passes, and then a third — the Half 
Moon, and with this and a sudden note of tragedy, the Prologue, a work of 
action, music and pantomime, is completed. \'ou have seen in a swift pano- 
rama, the ships of the three great explorers, Cabot, Verrazzano and Hudson; 
the first fatal encounter between the white man and the Indian on this coast; 
and the most notable legend of the Indians themselves. 

At this point the pageant proper begins. 

The mists have disappeared and the stage lies dark. Another ship appears 
and on its deck you see a number of figures. As the ship approaches the 
center of the lagoon the light upon the deck brightens until this group of 
figures is clearly illuminated, and you see them to be men in the dress of 1666, 
Puritans. They are holding a conference and now for the first time you 
hear spoken words, the wonderfully eloquent and characteristic words of the 
Newark fundamental agreement. Robert Treat, Samuel Swain, and others 
of the first group of settlers become known to you. The light which had been 
concentrated upon the deck of the ship now broadens and brightens and the 
whole stage is seen. The founders make their landing and are met by an 
angry group of Indians. Their negotiations with the natives promising no 
result, Robert Treat and some of the others go off with the Indians to consult 
with Chief Oraton. When they return, Perro and his chiefs come with them. 
A council is held. With the interpreters the purchase of the site of Newark 
is definitely arranged. And in this scene of the play you have found out 
what manner of men the founders were; how they looked and spoke and felt 
about their settlement and its relations to the Indians and Lord Proprietors. 
With the coming of the second group of settlers, the men of Branford, begins 
a scene of a town meeting. You now see Pastor Abraham Pierson, and the 
venerable Jasper Crane and hear the words of the four texts which were set 
at the head of the Branford agreement. You see the naming of the new 
town and the drawing for the home lots and this after, in rapidly succeeding 
dramatic scenes, the conference on Divident Hill; the surrender and oath of 
allegiance to the Dutch; the return of the English governor; the demand of 
Governor Andros and the town's splendid defiant reply; all these quickly 
moving scenes give place at the end of the first movement of the pageant to a 
scene within the church, showing more vividly what the precceding scenes 
have all indicated; that the town and the congregation, the church and the 
community, were identical. 



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The pageant now passes over a period of more than sixty years and when 
the second movement begins you find yourself in the middle of the 18th 
century. You see the Reverend Aaron Burr and his pupils, the entire student 
body of the college which was the forerunner of Princeton University. You 
see these students surrounded by a life of political violence and discontenti 
flaming out in sudden riot against the exactions of a distant and tyrannica 
government. You see the most distinguished soldier and citizen of Newark, 
Colonel Peter Schuyler, gathering round him the Jersey Blues to lead them 
to the French and Indian War. The general impression of the first scene 
of the second movement of the pageant is the growing attitude in favor of 
revolt against injustice culminating in revolution. And now the stage seems 
to grow deeper and broader as you discern, coming up from a great distance, 
Washington and his fugitive army in the retreat through Jersey, and following 
him, the British under Lord Cornwallis. This part of the history is more 
familiar but not less dramatic and in the third movement we come to matters 
still nearer to the present day and are concerned with events which accom- 
panied the growth of Newark from a colonial village to a great manufacturing 
and commercial city. 

NEWARK'S SAFE AND SANE FOURTH 

The Common Council Committee in charge of Fourth of July Celebration 
will follow the lines of "safe and sane" celebrations held in the city for the 
last two years. 

The patriotic exercises will be held in the morning on the grand-stand in 
front of the City Hall, at which there will be singing of patriotic songs by 
the school children. Fourth of July oration, reading of the Declaration of 
Independence and an address by the Mayor, and patriotic music by the 
band. 

The afternoon exercises will be held in Weequahic Park, consisting of a 
trotting meet by the New Jersey Road Horse Association, flag drill by the 
public school children, marches and drills by the Newark city playgrounds' 
children, canoe races for city championship-exhibition by the National Tur- 
ners, and other special features to be announced later. 

The evening exercises will consist of band concerts and patriotic moving 
pictures at East Side Park, West Side Park, and Prince Street playgrounds. 

Committee on Fourth of July Celebration: Aldermen Avitus J. Dough- 
erty, chairman; Michael Fagen, Chas. G. Hahn, Hubert J. Healy, Hyman 
Rosen, Frank W. Cann. Wm. D. Bleick. 

Martin J. King, Supervisor. 

Edmund Keane, Clerk. 

THE CHORAL PRIZE AWARD 

The five hundred dollar prize offered by the New Jersey Tri-City Music 
Festivals — Paterson, Newark and Jersey City — for the best choral work for 
mixed chorus and orchestra, written by an American citizen on an American 
subject, was awarded to Franz Carl Bornschein, of Baltimore, Maryland, 
whose composition "Onowa," entered under the nom-de-plume of "Honos 



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Alit Artes," was judged the best. Dr. Carl Busch, conductor of the Kansas 
City Symphony Orchestra, who submitted a composition "America," won 
second choice, and W. Franke Harling, of Boston, won third place with his 
work, "The Miracle of Time." 

Franz Carl Bornscheim a violinist, teacher in the preparatory department 
of the Peabody Institute of Music, director of the students' orchestra at 
that institution, conductor of the Orchestra Music Settlement of Baltimore, 
and the composer of a violin concerto in G minor, "The Dijinns," "Zorha," 
etc. He was formerly music critic on the Baltimore Evening Sun. 

Dr. Carl Busch is the conductor of the Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, 
and composer of "King Olaf," "The Four Winds," "American Flag," or- 
chestral works, Indian songs, etc. He has won many competition prizes 
in the past. 

Mr. Harling is well known as a composer and through his connections 
with the Boston Music Company. 

The judges of the contest were: Josef Stransky, conductor of the New- 
York Philharmonic Orchestra; Louis Koemmenich, conductor of the New 
York Oratorio Society, and C. Mortimer Wiske, conductor of the three New 
Jersey Festivals. All three decided upon the same winners. 

NEWARK'S INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION 

As the plans for the Industrial Exposition are developed, it becomes clear 
that Newark will have an exhibit of its processes and products which will 
surprise its own people, and be a revelation to the Celebration visitor. 

The worry is not that Newark will not fill up the exposition, but rather 
that the exposition space is too small to adequately represent the city. If 
but a single manufacturer in each line were to exhibit his products properly, 
there would not be a building in the city large enough to contain the wonder- 
ful display. It will be necessary to condense many of the leading industries 
into collective exhibits. From the standpoint of the spectator, this is a gain. 
The city has over 240 different lines of industry. 

The architects, Guilbert & Betelle, have conceived a decorative plan, 
with simplicity for its keynote, that will completely transform the armory, 
clothing the structure's severity in a fashion splendidly consistent with the 
nature of the exposition and superbly beautiful. Illusion will enter into the 
plan, for a dark blue material is to form the ceiling, with the result that by 
day, with transmitted light, the effect of limitless vertical distance, topped by 
a cloudy sky, will be secured; and by night, with the electric lights beneath 
the canopy, the illusion will be even more striking. 

The internal construction of the armory will be masked with cases of a 
design in harmony with the general scheme. The supports will be treated 
to change them into columns of the true exposition type. A simple color 
scheme of French-gray, white and gold, will form an unobtrusive, and, at 
the same time, enhancing background for the display of the varied wares 
Newark has to show. The matter of lighting is to be taken care of by 5,000 
40-watt- lights and thirty-two 500-watt lights. The lighting system will be 



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indirect. The glare of the lights, equalling the brilliance of midday, will be 
toned down to a soft glow that will reveal the exhibits at their best. 

There are three angles from which to view the organization of an expo- 
sition: the commercial, the decorative or artistic and that of the public. 
The layout of the armory space is frankly cold. Yet it must be made to satisfy 
all three requirements. The public needs certain provisions for its safety 




Seth Boyden Monument, Washington Park, Newark 



and comfort and it has been possible to make this provision and, at the same 
time, secure a total available exhibit area 6,000 square feet greater than was 
ever possible in Madison Square Garden. What will do for Mars won't do 
for Industry. The platforms and seats as they are seen when Mars holds 
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The main Hoor will be divided into eiglit Ijlocks, cac-li 100 feet long, with 
decorative columns, with cornice construction and pergolas, dressed with 
vines and flowers. The exhibits w'ill in many cases, be machinery in actual 
operation. Processes the public has perhaps but the slightest knowledge of 
will be on view. Finished products will be turned out and the management 
has stated it will permit exhibitors to sell to spectators any products that are 
in the concern's usual line made in the building. One of the exhibits that 
will be in actual operation will be an elevator, erected at the Sussex Avenue 
end. It will be decorative as well as useful, with a handsome ornamental 
bronze housing. 

THE NEWARK MUSICIANS' CLUB 

The musical program, a part of the opening exercises of the Celebration at 
Proctor's Theatre on the afternoon of May 1st, is furnished by the Newark 
Musicians' Club. A vocal ensemble of sixteen voices, representing sixteen of 
Newark's best known singers and just as many of Newark's best known choirs, 
is under the direction of Frank C. Mindnich, organist and choir director. The 
singers are: (Sopranos) Ottilie Macdonald, Mrs. Herbert H. Smith, Mrs. 
George J. Kirwan, Mrs. Inez Allen Potter; (Contraltos) Mary V. Potter, 
Mrs. George W. Baney, Mrs. Mollie C. Ely, Mrs. Belle T. Sutherland; (Ten- 
ors) Harry M. Biggin, Ernest H. Burkhardt, Henry Merker, John A. Campbell; 
(Basses) Millard Roubaud, Elmer E. Ross, Nicholas J. Tynan, Malcolm 
Corlies. 

The club is also organizing an orchestra, which will be composed of from 
fifteen to twenty pieces, under the direction of C. Mortimer Wiske, conduitor 
of the Newark Music Festival, who is an honorary member of the club. 

The Newark Musicians' Club, which now has a membership of nearly 
two hundred, including the most prominent musicians of the city and sub- 
urbs, since its organization tw-o years ago, has accomplished a great deal in its 
effort to cultivate a greater desire for good music in Newark. The Newark 
Music Festival was organized by one of its members and has had the club's 
entire support from the beginning. The idea of a Municipal Organ Fund also 
originated in the club, which has already approj)riated over $500 for this pur- 
pose. The club has also been the means of bringing the local musicians into 
closer relationship with each other, thus making many worthy enterprises 
possible. The club is to Ijc congratulated upon the work it is doing on behalf 
of the city. 



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HISTORIC PLACES IN AND NEAR NEWARK 

Academy, Newark. First building erected prior to 177.5 at south end 
of Washington Park, nearly opposite end of Halsey Street; destroyed by 
British soldiers 1780 and never re-built. First building of present Newark 
Academy erected 1792, north corner Broad and Academy Streets; site now 
occupied by Post Office. Property at High and William Streets, now oc- 
cupied, purchased 1857. 

Acquackanonck. Here Washington and his retreating army crossed the 
Passaic and entered Newark, Nov. 22, 1776. (Paterson trolley line.) 




Thf First Church of Newark 

Ailing, David, house built by him about 1790 on Broad Street opposite 
William, on site of present Kremlin building. Chateaubriand and Talley- 
rand lived there about 1795 and the latter while there worked upon his "Gen- 
ius of Christianity." 

Bank, first in Newark. National Newark Banking Company, chartered 
180-1. located a year later on north corner of Broad and Bank Streets. 

Boudinot house, on Park Place; site now occupied by new Public Service 
Corporation Terminal building. Lafayette was entertained there in Septem- 
ber, 1824. 

Boyden, Seth, inventor of patent leather and malleable iron; factory 
rear of 30 Orange Street. 

Burr, Aaron, birthplace. (See Parsonage.) 

Bridge, first across Passaic River, built before the Revolutionary War 
about where present Bridge Street bridge is. 

Camp homestead, residence of Capt. Nathaniel Camp before and during 
Revolutionary War, stood at Broad and Camp Streets, near site of projected 
250th Anniversary Memorial Building. Washington was entertained there 
several times when he visited Newark during the encampments at Morris- 
town. 

Cedars, The; hermit-like home of William Henry Herbert ("Frank 
Forester"), first important writer in America on sports and outdoor life. 
House stood within what is now Mount Pleasant Cemetery, in the woods on the 
bank of the Passaic, close to the "Gully Road," now Herbert place. Herbert 
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Centre Street, foot of, on the river front, stood one of the two hospitals for 
soldiers during tlie Civil War. There was another further down the river 
not far from Market Street bridge. The first railroad from Newark to Jersey 
City crossed the river at Centre Street. 

City Hotel, or Thompson's, was later occupied for many years as the City 
Hall, at north corner of Broad and William Streets. Once people could 
board a train from its doors and ride up Broad Street, down Market and thus 
to Jersey City. A modern business building now occupies the site. 

Cockloft Hall, still standing at northeast corner of Gouverneur Street 
and Mount Pleasant Avenue. Part of it was standing during the War for 
Independence, and tradition says Washington was entertained there in the 
late fall of 1776. Early in the 19th century the house, then owned by (Jouver- 
neur Kenible, was frequently visited by Washington Irving, who has immor- 
talized it in his "Salmagundi." 

College of New Jersey, now Princeton University, founded at Elizabetli 
Town 1757, removed to Newark same year. Occupied old Court House, on 
eastern edge of the Old Burying Ground (which see), perhaps a little south of 
Branford Place. Patriots of Essex County met in same buihiing 1774 to 
protest against royal tyranny. 

Court House and jail. First jail on Broad Street on eastern edge of Old 
Burying Ground, not far from first Court House. New Court House and 
jail, a three-story stone structure with cells in the cellar, built 1810 at Broad 
and Walnut Streets, site of present Grace Church, was burned 1835. 

Early settlers, monument to, in Fairmount Cemetery. Beneath it now 
rest the bones of many early residents removed from the Old Burying Ground. 

Eagle Tavern, stood on west side of Broad Street about 100 yards north 
of William Street. Unconfirmed tradition says Washington had head- 
quarters there in November, 1776. 

First Presbyterian Church. Original "Meeting House" of first settlers 
on eastern edge of Old Burying Ground fronting on what is now Broad Street 




Ball House, where Washington look Refuge from British. 
Part of Newark in Colonial Days 



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a little north of Branford Place. Present First Presbyterian Church, on 
Broad Street, nearly opposite, begun 1787, finished 1791. 

Four Corners. The founders started their village where Broad and Mar- 
ket Streets now cross. Coming from four towns in Connecticut those from 
each town took a corner from Avhich to start laying out their home lots. 

Frog Pond, at the southwest corner of Market and Broad Streets, was not 
entirely obliterated for more than a century from the first settlement. 

Iron foundry, first in Newark, on present site of Second Presbyterian 
Church, James and Washington Streets, facing Washington Park. 




Phil. Kearny Homestead, 1711, now the site of the State Normal Scbc 



Kearny homestead, on each side of Belleville Avenue opposite Kearny 
Street and on north corner of Fourth Avenue; now occupied by the State 
Normal School. Major General Philip Kearny spent most of his babyhood 
and early years there when the estate extended to the Passaic River. 

Kearny later built a pretentious mansion, "Kearny Castle." at Kearny 
across the River. (Kearny trolley line, walk north on Passaic Avenue, east 
of river bridge or east from Kearny Avenue to Belgrove Drive. 

I,ibrary Hall stood on north side of Market Street on part of present site 
of Bamberger's store. Many prominent actors, musicians and lecturers 
appeared there in the sixties, seventies and eighties of the last century. 

Machinery Hall, Washington and Marshall Streets, was built for Newark 
big industrial exhibition in 1872, attended by President Grant. 

Market Place, set aside by the settlers in 1676, now Washington Park. 

Market Street, between the Court House and the Pennsylvania Railroad, 
was probably an Indian footpath following a stream which ran down the hill- 
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Mill, first grist, stood on "Mill Brook," near north corner of High and 
Clay Streets. 

Military Hall, 199-201 Market Street, three upper floors; recruits drilled 
traditionally during the Mexican War and certainly during the Civil War. 

Ogden homestead, Broad and Clay Streets. 

Old Burying Ground was immediately back of the old First Presbyterian 
Church and extended from Broad Street west to what is now Halsey Street, 
south nearly to present William Street, and north to the ponds close to Mar- 
ket Street. Bones of early residents were removed from the Old Burying 
Ground in the late eighties of the last century and the property was devoted 
to business uses. Other historic burying grounds are those of the present 
First Presbyterian Church, opposite, and of Trinity Church back of the 
present parish house on Rector Street. 

Park House, site now occupied by Proctor's Theatre, Stood on the east side 
of Park Place opposite south end of Military Park. Many eminent persons 
stopped there. Henry Clay spoke from the steps Nov. 20, 1833. 

Parsonage, home of several ministers of Old First Church in the eighteenth 
century, stood at Broad and William Streets, a little south of the latter. 
Aaron Burr was born there 1756, when his father. Rev. Aaron Burr, occupied 
the parsonage. 




rillnir l|.,ll,rMr:i,|, will, |ir,,a.l ;iihI Sl.llr Sis., now llic ]!r|-(,i|-,v ol' I !lr 

House of Prayer 

Plume homestead, now rectory of the House of Prayer, Broad and State 
Streets. Little changed from when it was occupied by the Plume family in 
1712. 

Quarries, worked more than 200 years ago, were around corner of Bloom- 
field and Clifton Avenues. 



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Johnson's Mill, 1850 



School, first town, stood on soiitli side of Market Street, about 50 yards 
east of Halsey Street. 

School, first free for apprentices, started by Moses N. Combs, shoe manu- 
facturer, on south side of Market Street near Plane Street. 

Stone Bridge, spanned Mill Brook a little south of where Broad Street and 
Belleville Avenue join. Site of first corn mill. 

Stone laid July 4, 1826, in commemoration of signing of Declaration of 
Independence, is still at lower end of Military Park. Original proposition 
to raise a "Semi-Centennial Building" on this site was never carried out. 

Springfield, battle of, site. Continental Jersey forces under Dayton de- 
feated Knyphausen. Theme of Brete Harte's poem, "Caldwell of Spring- 
field." (South Orange or Springfield trolley to Maplewood, change to Morris 
County Traction Company cars.) 

Tannery, first, was on south side of Market .Street about 100 yards below 
present Court House plaza. 

Tavern, Rising Sun, overlooked the river near where the Public Service 
power house now stands, a little above Market Street Bridge. St. John's 
Lodge of Free Masons met there as early as 1761. 

Town Pump, stood for more than a century and a half in the center of the 
open space at the Four Corners. 

Training Place was the original designation of present Military Park, 
set aside by the early settlers for all the able bodied men to drill for prepara- 
tion against any attacks by Indians. 

Trinity Church, Episcopal, is on site of original building erected in 1743-4 
by the second congregation established in Newark. In the first building, 
converted into a hospital, many of the patriots wounded in the Battle of 
Long Island in 1776 were cared for. Washington attended serivces in the 
original church. The base of the present church spire is a part of the first 
structure. Cornerstone of present building laid in May, 1809. 



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Watering Place. The founders set aside a small plot near the corner of 
Broad and Market Streets, as a place to water cattle and horses. 

Weequahic Park. On "Divident Hill" commissioners from Newark and 
Elizabeth Town met in 1068 to fix the boundary between the two settlements. 

MONUMENTS IN NEWARK 

Lincoln Memorial, Court House plaza. Sculptor, John Gutzon de la 
Borglum. Bronze figure six feet 6 inches high; seated on bench 2 feet high 
and eight feet long. Statue and bench one piece, on base of granite 29 feet 4 
inches across front, with depth of 20 feet 10 inches, arranged in four grada- 
tions. Gift from bequest of the late Amos H. Van Horn. Unveiled Memorial 
Day, 1911, with Theodore Roosevelt orator. 

Washington Memorial, southeast corner of Washington Park. Sculptor, 
J. Massy Rhind. Total height 22 feet above ground level, including mound 
7 feet high and granite pedestal 3 feet high. Bronze figure represents Gen. 
Washington standing by his horse, taking formal leave of his soldiers at Rocky 
Hill. Gift from bequest of the late Amos H. Van Horn. Unveiled Nov. 2, 
1912. 

The Hiker, McKinley Circle, Clinton, Belmont and Madison Avenues. 
Memorial of Spanish-American war soldiers. The bronze figure stands in 
khaki trousers, canvas leggins, drab shirt, regulation service hat, "at ease," 
gun in the hollow of his right arm, left arm resting on hip. Gift of United 
Spanish-American war veterans. Unveiled Memorial Day, 1914. 

Kearny Statue, south end of Military Park. Scupltor, H. K. Brown. 
Bronze lifesize figure shows the general leaning on his sword. Granite base 
inscribed "KEARNY." On obverse of pedestal: "Philip Kearny, Major 
General United States Volunteers. Born June 2, 1815. Killed in Battle at 
Chantilly, Va., Sept. 1, 1862." On reverse: "Erected by Authority of the 
State of New Jersey, A.D. 1880." Tablet on west side of pedestal inscribed: 
"In Memoriam. Presented by the Italians of Newark, N. J., 1911." 

Seth Boyden Statue, near north end of Washington Park. In honor of the 
first man to make patent leather and malleable iron. The standing bronze 
figure shows the inventor alongside an anvil and resting on a hammer. In- 
scribed simply: "Seth Boyden, Inventor." Dedicated May 13, 1890. 

Bust of Dr. Abraham Coles, bronze, north apex of Washington Park. 
Commemorates a poet, physician and philanthropist. A bronze tablet on 
the granite pedestal has the text of Dr. Coles's verses, "The Rock of Ages." 
Base a boulder with "Plymouth Rock" carved into the southern face. 

Frelinghuysen Statue, bronze, near center of Military Park. Inscrip- 
tion on pedestal: "Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, 1817-1885. Attorney Gen- 
eral of the State of New Jersey. Senator of the United States. Secretary of 
State of the United States." 

Doane Statue, bronze, in Doane Park, small triangle north of Trinity 
Church. Standing figure, in eccelsiastical robes, commemorates Rt. Rev. 
George W. Doane, a distinguished prelate of the Roman Catholic Diocese 
Newark. Inscription on pedestal: "Monsignor Doane." 

Bronze Howitzer, mounted on granite base, near south end of Military 
Park, was part of the armament of Morro Castle, Santiago Harbor, Cuba, 



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captured by the United States forces July 2, 1898. Cannon presented to 
Newark in 1899. Bronze tablet on pedestal gives history of the piece, which 
was made from older Spanish cannon. 

Libertj' Pole, at southern apex of Military Park, might be called a monu- 
ment, as it took the place of the original Liberty Pole erected July 3, 1793. 
Copper plate on stone base relates that the present iron mast, 112 feet high, 
was dedicated Thanksgiving Day, 1906. In the same enclosure is the semi- 
centennial stone laid July 4, 1826, of which the inscription was restored in 
1906. (See Historic Sites.) 

To Be Unveiled During the Celebration 

The following structures, all designed by Gutzon Borglum, are to be placed 
during May under the auspices of the subcommittee on monuments and 
Tablets, F. J. Urquhar, chairman. 

In front of Public Library, Washington Street: bronze and stone shaft on 
safety isle, with figures of Puritan and Indian. 

At Branford place and Washington Street, on safety isle; ornamental 
bronze electrolier. 

In Landing Place Park, foot of Saybrook place: fountain with inscription 
to founders. 




Essex County Court House, Newark 

Built of white marble. The interior decorations are of special interest. 
There are nine marble and bronze figures symbolizing Law, designed by 
Andrew O'Connor, and mural paintings by the famous American artists, E. H. 
Blashfield, H. O. Walker, C. Y. Turner, Kenyon Cox, Will Low, and Howard 
Pyle. Borglum's seated bronze figure of Lincoln is on the plaza. 



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HISTORICAL AND MEMORIAL BRONZE TABLETS 

First Presljyterian Churcli, south end of front wall. In memory of the 
first settlers. (Dedicated by New Jersey Colonial Dames, 1902.) 

Broad and Commerce Streets, to Newark's first schoolmaster, John Cat- 
lin. (Placed 1911.) 

State Normal School, Belleville and Fourth Avenues. In memory of Major 
General Philip Kearny, whose ancestral home was on this site. (Dedicated 
by Newark Board of Education, 1912.) 

Kinney Building, southeast corner of Broad and Markets Streets, to 
Robert Treat, leader of first settlers. (Placed 1912.) 

St. Patrick's Cathedral, Washington Street wall, to John G. Shea, Catholic 
historian. (Placed 1912.) 

Branch Brook Park, Roseville and Fourth Avenues, marks site of Camp 
Frelinghuysen, rendezvous of Union volunteers in 1862. (Erected by pupils 
of Barringer High School 1912.) 

Branford Place, south side, near Broad Street, marks site of Newark's 
first Meeting House. (Placed 1913 by the Schoolmen's Club.) 

Firemen's Building, northeast corner of Broad and Market Streets, east 
end of Market Street front; commemorates route taken by Washington from 
Philadelphia to Cambridge in 1775 to assume command of the patriot army 
(Dedicated by New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1914.) 

First Presbyterian Church lecture room, front wall. Commemorates 
establishment of the Sunday school. (Placed by the church in 1914, the cen- 
tennial of that event.) 

Hallway of Free Public Library, north wall. In memory (with portrait) 
of Rev. Hannibal Goodwin, inventor of the photographic film. (Dedicated 
by Newark Camera Club, 1914.) 

Trinity Church, front wall; commemorates Washington's passage "un- 
der the shadow of this tower" during his retreat in November, 1776. (Placed 
by New Jersey Society, Sons of the American Revolution, 1914.) 

Prudential Building, 763 Broad Street, south end of front; depicts Betsy 
Ross flag and commemorates battle grounds and marches of the Revolution. 
(Placed by Schoolmen's Club on Flag Day, 1915.) 

On building 75 Market Street, to Rev. Moses N. Combs, Newark's pioneer 
in industrial education, whose shoe shop was near by. (Dedicated by School- 
men's Club, 1916.) 

To Be Placed During the Celebration 

Phillips Park, Summer and Elwood Avenues and El wood Place; marking 
Revolutionary camping ground in North Newark. Will be set in a boulder 
from Fox Hill. (Gift of Nova Caesarea Chapter, Daughters of the American 
Revolution.) 

Washington Park, near south end; to mark site of first Academy in New- 
ark, built 1774 by gifts of citizens; barracks for American troops in the War 
of Independence; burned by British raiders 1780. Base will be a natural 
boulder. (Gift of trustees, graduates and students of Newark Academy to 
commemorate the forerunner of the present institution, the first building of 
which was erected at Broad and Academy streets in 1792.) 



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Upper end of Military Park to Col. Peter Schuyler, originator of the 
term "Jersey Blues." Base will be a boulder. (Gift of Society of Founders 
and Patriot.) 

Clinton Park, triangular plot west of Lincoln Park, to commemorate 
"Old White School House" of 1793. Base will be a boulder. (Gift of New 
Jersey Daughters of the Revolution.) 

Front wall of new building 536 Broad Street, opposite Washington Park; 
will mark site of home Joseph Hedden, Revolutionary martyr. The aged 
patriotwas dragged from his house by British night-raiders in 1780 and com- 
pelled to walk to Paul us Hook (Jersey City) in the snow, clad only in his 
nightgown. He died from the exposure. (Gift of Barringer High School 
history class.) 

Weequahic Park, to mark "Divident Hill," where boundary between 
Newark and Elizabeth Town was fi.xed in 1G68. (Gift of Students of South 
Side High School.) 

On Koenig building, southwest corner of Broad and William Streets. To 
mark site where the College of New Jersey, now Princeton University had 
its home 1748-1756. For the two years prior it had been at Elizabeth Town 
and from here it was moved to Princeton. The classes were held in the par- 
sonage of the First Presbyterian Church, of which the elder .\aron Burr was 
the minister, and he was also the second president of the college. The par" 
sonage stood on this site. (Gift of the Princeton Club of Newark.) 

HOW NEWARK GOT ITS SEAL 

Newark became a city in 1836, and the Council on June !27 of that year 
adopted a seal described in a special committee report as follows: "On 
the right hand is a female figure seated; her right arm resting on the hilt of a 
sword, her left supporting a scale in equal balance. On tlie left is a female 
figure in a standing posture sustaining with her right hand the standard and 
cap of liberty, and her left arm resting on a bundle of rods, holding the olive 
branch. Between these figures is a shield, on which three ploughs are repre- 
sented; above is the dexter arm suspending a hammer. Encircling the 
whole are the letters and figures following: 'Newark City seal. Incorpora- 
ted 1836.' " 

The name of the designer is not known, but he borrowed his design largely 
from that of the seal of the State of New Jersey, made by Pierre Eugene du 
Simitiere, of Philadelphia, the original of which is in the office of the Secre- 
tary of State at Trenton. The original committee report on the State seal 
describes the arms as "three Ploughs in an Escutcheon, the Supporters, 
Liberty and Ceres, and the Crest, a Horse's Head, these words to be engraved 
in large letters around the Arms, viz.; 'The Great Seal of the State of New 
Jersey.' " 

Comparison of this seal with that of Newark shows in both the figure of 
Liberty, but in the city emblem, instead of Ceres carrying the horn of plenty 
it is on the ground at the feet of the figure of Liberty. The three ploughs 
are in both seals. 



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NEWARK THE MOTHER OF TOWNS 

Following are the townships ereated by law out of the territory ineluded 
in the original settlement of Newark. 

1793 — SpringGeld Township created. Set off from Elizabeth Town and 
Newark and including the territory now composing the Townsiiips of Sjiring- 
field and New Providence, in Union County; Millburn and a part of the 
Township of Livingston, in Essex County. 

1798 — Caldwell Township created. Set off from Newark and Acquacka- 
nock and including the territory now composing the Township of Caldwell and 
a part of the Township of Livingston. 




Painting, Diogenes, by Low, (Court House, Newark) 



1806 — Orange Township created. Set off from Newark and including the 
territory now composing the City of Orange and apart of what was formerly 
the Township of Clinton. 

LSl'i — Bloomfield Township created. Set off from Newark and including 
the territory now composing the Townships of Belleville and Bloomfield. 

-1813 — Livingston Townsliip created. Set off from Springfield and Cald- 
well. 

ISSl' — Clinton Township created. Set oft' from Newark, Orange, Eliza- 
beth and Union. 

1838 — Supplement to aforesaid Act. Part of Clinton re-annexed to 
Orange. 

1839 — Belleville Township created. Set off from Bloomfield. 

1852 — Boundary line altered between Newark and Clinton. 

1857 — Millburn Township created. Set off from Springfield. 

1861 — South Orange Township created. Set off from Clinton and Orange. 

1862 — Fairmount Township created. Set off from Orange, Caldwell and 
Livingston. 



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1863— Part of Millburn set off to South Orange. 

1863 — Supplement altering lines and changing name of Fairmount to 
West Orange. 

1863 — East Orange Township created. Set oft" from Orange. 
1869 — Montclair Township created. Set off from Bloomfield. 
1869 — Boundary line altered between Newark and Clinton. 
1871 — Woodside divided between Belleville and Newark. 
1874 — Franklin Township created. 

Annexations to Newark 

1869 — Portion of Clinton Township annexed to 3d, 0th and 13th Wards. 

1871 — Annexation of Woodside. 

1897 — Annexation western part of Clinton Township. 

1902 — Annexation eastern part of Clinton Township. 

1905 — Annexation of Vailshurg. 

HIGH POINTS IN ESSEX COUNTY 
Elevations Above Mean Tide Level 

Highest point in the county: Second Mountain, near Essex County 
Penitentiary at Caldwell, 691 feet. 

First Mountain, east of Verona, 665 feet. 

Highest point in Eagle Rock Reservation, in town of West Orange, 659 
feet. 

Eagle Rock Casino, 625 feet. 

Highest point in South Mountain Reservation, on Meeker tract in town 
of West Orange, 588 feet. 

Long Hill, 473 feet. 

Crossroads at Pleasantdale, near West Orange, 432^ feet. 

Presbyterian Church at Caldwell, 411 feet. 

Graveyard back of church at Roseland, 369.3 feet. 

County Parks Before Reservation 

Grover Cleveland Park, at Caldwell, was being laid out when The Manual 
was issued, and the expectation was to complete it during the summer of this 
year. It is named after the late president who was born in Caldwell. There 
is a small lake on the property. Area of park, 41.48 acres; cost of land 
$47,292; cost of improvements to date, $26,388. 

Belleville Park, in the western part of the town of Belleville, along Second 
River, is the latest of all the county parks to be acquired and thus far has 
been merely staked out for improvements. Area 31.75 acres; cost of land 
$57,232. 

Camp Newark 

The city owns a seashore camp of 113^ acres with suitable buildings, at 
Avon-by-the-Sea, 55 miles from Newark, where about 2,000 deserving children 
are entertained a for week at a time in the summer season, at the City's 
expense. The city also provides transportation. 



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PORT NEWARK TERMINAL 

Through the development of its vast waterfront Newark Is now enabled to 
offer factory sites bordering on the best-equipped waterrail terminal on the 
Atlantic coast: an ideal industrial center combining the finest service in 
ocean and domestic transportation. Eighty per cent, of all transcontinental 
freights now pass through the zone of this immense betterment, for which 
bond issues to the amount of $2,250,000 have thus far been authorized, and 
$1,670,000 expended upon its initial unit alone. It means in the near future 
the establishment of one of the world's greatest seaports. The plans call for a 
series of water channels from the main ship channel and running back into 
the marsh lands one-half mile to one mile. The piers with the proposed 
length of 1,200 feet will be the longest on the Eastern seaboard and will 
accommodate the largest ocean liners now afloat or designed. 

Newark Department of Docks and Meadows created Jan. 1, 1914. 

First dredging contract for Port Newark Terminal awarded Feb., 1914, 
and work begun March 21 the same year. 

Total area of zone, 1,150 acres. 

Reclaimed to date, 294 acres. 

Reserved for streets, freight yards, stations and dock frontage, 124 acres. 

Remainder available for leasing, 170 acres. 

Depth in channel and at face of docks at mean low tide, 20 feet. 

Length of city channel from government channel in bay, 7,030 feet. 

Width of channel at bottom, 400 feet; of turning basin, 500 feet. 

Length of docks under contract, 4,500 feet; completed, 2,500 feet. 

Prospective lessees and others interested may obtain full information at 
the Department of Docks and Meadows, City Hall, Broad, Green and Frank- 
lin Streets. 

"ASK THE RAILROAD MAN" 

Downtown Ticket Offices 

Pennsylvania Railroad and Hudson & Manhattan tubes — Essex 

Building, Clinton and Beaver Streets. 
Central Railroad of New Jersey — Passenger station, 840 Broad 

Street. 
Lackawanna Railroad — Firemen's Building, Broad and Market 

Streets. 
Lehigh Valley Railroad— 211 Market Street. 
Erie Railroad — 3d floor Kinney Building, Broad and Market 

Streets. 

Information for Everybody 

The ofiices in the above list are all on the street floor, and each of them 
is a general Bureau of Information for the public during the entire Celebra- 
tion. Not only may timetables, tickets and rates be obtained there, but all 
facts relating to the Celebration, printed or spoken. The agents in charge 
are all members of the Celebration Sub-Committee on Transportation and 
are ready to tell travelers and visitors everything they need to know. 



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THE FAMOUS COLLEONI STATUE 

Presented to the City of Newark by Christian W. Feigenspan 
Illustration on pages 48 and 49 

June, the second month of the Celebration, will witness the installation 
of another monumental work of art to adorn the city. It was a proud day 
for Newark when Mr. Christian W. Feigenspan announced that he would give 
the city a bronze replica of the greatest equestrian statue in the world, that 
of the General Bartolomeo CoUeoni in Venice, by Andrea Verrocchio, the 
famous Florentine artist. The CoUeoni statue will be placed in Clinton Park, 
the triangle at Lincoln Park, and now occupied by a fountain. 

There is only one copy of the statue in bronze, and that is in Paris. Mr. 
J. Massey Rhind, the sculptor, has been chosen to prepare the work; he also 
made the equestrian statue of Washington, which stands in Washington Park. 

Verrocchio died after completing the model of the CoUeoni statue, and 
left word that his pupil Lorenzo di Credi should cast it in bronze. The Vene- 
tian authorities, however, determined that one of their own citizens should have 
the work. Alessandro Leopardi, who had made the sockets for the flagstaff s 
on the Piazza of San Marco, but who had been expelled from Venice on 
account of forgery, was recalled and given the casting of the statue. He 
designed the pedestal which bears his name, and had the effrontery to put 
his name on the saddle of the horse. 

Leopardi would never have conceived the statue, and only the ignorant 
would have given him credit. To Verrocchio alone belongs the honor of this 
magnificent work. 

The only other statue in the world that can compare with the CoUeoni is 
that of Gattamelata by Donatello, which was the first great equestrian mon- 
ument in bronze, cast in Italy after the Renaissance. 

Verrocchio was the pupil of Donatello, but he surpassed his master in his 
study of nature, and as the teacher of Leonardo da Vinci had a strong in- 
fluence upon the development of Italian art. 

There has never been an adverse criticism of this magnificent work of art, 
from the time of its erection in 1493 to the present day. 

The poise of the statue is perfect, the horse standing firmly tmsupported 
while his anatomy shows the sculptor's knowledge of his subject. Ruskin 
wrote of the CoUeoni: "I do not believe there is a more glorious work of 
sculpture existing in the world than the equestrian statue of Bartolomeo 
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ORIGIN OF THE CELEBRATION 

N'jwark's "Big Birtliday Party" liail its inception in tlie early part of 
191S, when Jacob Haiissling, the Mayor, in his annual message suggested the 
celebration. The proposal was received favorably and the necessary bill was 
.submitted to the Legislature. It was not until the following year, however, 
that the Legislature passed the Act, known as Chapter 8, Laws of 1914, 
enabling cities of the state to appropriate money for the purpose of celebrat- 
ing the 250th anniversary of their settlement. TJnder this Act, the Common 
Council of the City of Newark, adopted a resolution on April 3rd, authorizing 
the Mayor to appoint a committee of one hundred residents to prepare the 
plans and conduct the cele))ration. Mayor Haussling, in July, notified one 
hundred citizens of their selection to serve on the committee. 




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THE NEWARK OF TODAY 
Location 

Newark is located on the Passaic River and fronts on Newark Bay, eight 
miles west of New York. 

Area 23.40 square miles, of which 6.5 square miles are tide marsh. 

I/atitude 40° 41', longitude 74° 10' west from Greenwich. 
Population 

Population in 1916, U. S. Census Bureau estimate, 399,000. Suburban 
within an area of 30 square miles 300,000. 

Greater Newark 700.000. 

Newark ranks 14th among the cities of the I nited States. 

Railroads 

Pennsylvania, Lackawanna, Erie, Lehigh Valley and (Reading), N. J. 
Central. Passenger depots 14. Passenger trains daily 900. Freight delivery 
yards 14. Freight trains daily 350. 

Cars of merchandise freights annually. 500,000. Railway tonnage deliv- 
ered, 3,965,480; shipped annually, 1,400.000. 

Electric Railroads 

Hudson and Manhattan tubes, 18 minutes to New York. Thirty Elec- 
tric trolley lines to suburban ])oints. 

Telephone Service 

Newark Commercial Office — 281 Washington Street. 

Central Offices — Arlington, l?ellevi!le. Branch Brook, Harrison, Market, 
Mulberry, Waverly. 

Pay stations in service. 1,821. 

Stations in service, including pay stations, 30,975. 

Local calls during 1915, 30,006,660. 

Out-of-town calls during 1915, 4,932,850. 







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NEWARK'S 

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GROWTH IN A CENTURY 

8,008 1859 66,000 

6,507 1860 U. S. Census 71,941 

8,017 1861 73,000 

10,953 1862 70,000 

12,500 1863....: 68,000 

14,000 1864 70,000 

15,000 1865 City Census 87,413 

16,500 1866 94,800 

18,201 1867 101,000 

19,732 1868 105,000 

20,079 1869 113,040 

16,128 1870 U. S. Census 105,059 

17,268 1871 110,000 

17,290 1872 115,000 

18,720 1873 118,000 

18,800 1874 120,000 

20,200 1875 City Census 123,310 

23,187 1876 123,000 

25,433 1877 122,500 

26,000 1878 124,000 

28,000 1879 125,000 

30,000 1880 U. S. Census 136,508 

32,000 1885 State Census 152,988 

38,894 1890 U. S. Census 181.830 

40,000 1895 State Census 215,806 

44,000 1900 U. S. Census 246,070 

48,000 1905 State Census 283,289 

51,711 1910 U. S. Census 347,469 

57,000 1915 State 366,728 

64,000 1916 U. S. Census 399,000 

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PUBLIC BAND CONCERTS— SUMMER 1916 

Day Date Place 

May 14 Branch Brook Park 

" 21 Weequahic Park 

" 28 West Side Park 

June 3 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

" 4 Branch Brook Park 

" 11 Weequahic Park 

" 17 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

" 18 Branch Brook Park 

" 20 East Side Park 

" 21 Branch Brook Park 

" 22 West Side Park 

" 23 Prince Street Playgrounds 

" 25 Weequahic Park 

" 27 East Side Park 

" 28 Branch Brook Park 

" 29 West Side Park 

July 2 Branch Brook Park 

" 5 Branch Brook Park 

6 West Side Park 

" 9 Weequahic Park 

" 11 East Side Park 

" 12 Branch Brook Park 

" 13 West Side Park 

" 15 WVcquahic Park Trotting Park 

" 16 Branch Brook Park 

" 18 East Side Park 

" 19 Branch Brook Park 

" 20 West Side Park 

" 20 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

21 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

" 22 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

" 23 Branch Brook Park 

" 25 East Side Park 

26 Branch Brook Park 

" 27 West Side Park 

" 28 Belleville Avenue Playgrounds 

" 30 Weequahic Park 

Aug. 1 East Side Park 

2 Branch Brook Park 

3 West Side Park 

5 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

6 Branch Brook Park 

" 8 East Side Park 

9 Branch Brook Park 

" 10 West Side Park 

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Tue. evg. Aug. 15 East Side Park 

Wed. " " 16 Branch Brook Park 

Thur. " " 17 West Side Park 

Sat. aft. " 19 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

Sun. " " 20 Branch Brook Park 

Tue. evg. " 22 East Side Park 

Wed. " " 23 ....:......; Branch Brook Park 

Thur. " " 24 West Side Park 

Fri. " " 25 Vailsburg Playgrounds 

Sun. aft. " 27 Weequahic Park 

Tue. evg. " 29 East Side Park 

Wed. " " .30 Branch Brook Park 

Thur. " " 31 West Side Park 

Sat. aft. Sept. 2 Weequaliic Park Trotting Track 

Sun. " " 3 Branch Brook Park 

Tue. evg. " 5 East Side Park 

Wed. " " 6 Branch Brook Park 

Thur. " " 7 West Side Park 

Sun. aft. " 10 Weequahic Park 

Tue. evg. " 12 East Side Park 

Wed. evg. " 13 Branch Brook Park 

Thur. " " 14 West Side Park 

Fri. " " 15 Prince Street Playgrounds 

Sat. aft. " 16 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

Sun. " " 17 Branch Brook Park 

Sun. " " 24 Weequahic Park 

Sat. " " 30 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

Sun. " Oct. 1 Branch Brook Park 

Sat. " " 14 Weequahic Park Trotting Track 

N. B. — The Weequahic Track concerts are given rliiring the race meets of 
the New Jersey Road Horse Association. 

Common Council Committee on Band Concerts, 1916 — Alderman Thomas 
E. Curran, chairman; Charles A. Glutting, Hubert J. Ilealy, Anthony Schuck, 
Hyman Rosen, Herbert L. Throwless, George H. Baker. Martin J. King, 
supervisor; Frederick Summers, clerk. 

In 1915 tlie city gave 84 pul)lic band concerts to an aggregate attendance 
of 402,000, at a cost of less than $9,000, or about 2 cents per person. It 
also inaugurated a series of indoor concerts in the school auditoriums. 

NEWARK BOARD OF TRADE 

Office, 800 Broad Street. 

President, Augustus V. Hamburg; Vice-Presidents, Herbert P. Gleason, 
John F. Kehoe, David Grotta; Secretary, James M. Reilly; Treasurer, David 
H. Merritt; Advisory-Counsel, Joseph Coult; Board of Directors, Abram 
Rothschilfl, Ludolph H. Conklin, Edward M. Waldron, Forrest F. Dryden, 
Mo.ses Plant, William B. Gwinnell, Denis F. O'Brien, George M. Denny, 
Daniel H. Dunham. 



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Municipal Data 

Number of public buildings, 127. 

Assessed valuation, real and personal, $420,366,342. 

Total revenue (1915), $13,700,509.45. 

Total bonded debt, $41,390,200. 

Amount in sinking fund to apply on bonded debt, $10,570,644.94. 

Total net debt, city and water, $27,298,200. 

Annual tax rate per $1,000 of valuation, 22.30. 

Total cost of buildings and alterations (1915), $7,912,184. 

Total number of dwellings in city, 43,769. 

Number of factories and commercial buildings, 18,298. 

Death rate per 1,000 of population, 14.02. 

Number of births (1915), 11,263. 

Birth rate per 1,000 of population, 30. 

Number of trees planted by Shade Tree Commission since 1904, 29,000. 

Number of public baths, 5. 

Number of public playgrounds, 31. 

Number of band concerts given last year, 86. 

Manufacturers 

(U. S. Census 1910) 

Capital invested in manufacturing, $154,233,000. 

Number of operatives employed, 59,995 

Annual wages paid, $44,853,000. 

Value of raw material, $120,907,766. 

Establishments using power, employing over 10 hands, 1,858. 

Value of finished product,$252,512,000. 

Newark ranks 11th in the aggregate value of products annually. 

Newark has 252 distinct lines of industry; fifty lines each turning out 
values from one to thirty million dollars annually. 

Newark as a manufacturing centre ranks ahead of thirty states in the ag- 
gregate value of its manufactured i)roducts. 

Newark per capita to its population leads in the variety of its manufac- 
tures. 

Newark is tiic largest fine jewelry manufacturing centre in the United 
States. 

Newark produces the largest variety and best grades of leather for shoes, 
carriages and upholstering. 

Newark produces the finest malleable iron in America. 

Newark built the first locomotive engine to travel up grade. 

Newark made first patent leather in United States. 

Newark added celluloid to the world's commerce. 

The value of manufactures yearly represent $580 per capita. 

Wages paid employees average $747 yearly. 

Banking 

National banks, 9. 

Trust companies, 10. 

Savings banks, 7. 



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National Bank resources, $70,000,000. 

National Bank deposits, $50,000,000. 

Trust Company resources, $55,000,000. 

Trust Company deposits, $40,000,00 0. 

Savings Bank resources, $50,000,000. 

Savings Bank deposits, $45,000,000. 

Building & Loan Associations assets $40,000,000. 

Building & Loan Associations receipts, $30,000,000. 

Shareholders Building & Loan Associations, 60,000. 

Number of depositors Savings Bank^, 130,000. 

Number of depositors Trust Companies, 55,000. 

Total outgoing bank clearings over $750,000,000. 

Insurance 

Life Insurance Companies, 2; Fire Insurance Companies, 5. 
Total Income, Life Insurance Companies, 1913, $127,780,976. 
Assets, $365,696,799. 
Total Capital Fire Insurance Companies, 3,500,000. 

Newark has 81 trades unions. 

Newark has 270 building and loan associations and 8 savings and loan 
associations. 

Newark has 27 singing societies. 

Newark has 13 neighborhood improvement associations. 

Newark has 114 clubs, social and athletic. 

Newark has 64 Kranken Unterstuetzung Vereins, or German-speaking 
mutual relief societies. 

Newark has 42 private and parochial schools with 19,000 pupils; 8 busi- 
ness colleges and 2 academies. 

Newark has 3 daily and 11 weekly newspapers, including publications in 
German, Italian and Polish. 

CEMETERIES 

Agudith Achim — Grove, near Central Avenue, Vailsburg. 

Anshe Russia (Congregational) — West Kinney, near Prince Street. 

B'nai Jeshurun Evergreen, No. 2 — Lower road, Newark to Elizabeth. 
President, Joseph Goetz; Secretary, Joseph Kern; Treasurer, William Mendel; 
Superintendent, William Z. A. Wright. 

City Potter's Field — Meadow road. 

Fairmount — 489 South Orange Avenue. 

Hebrew Free Burial Society — Grove, near Central Avenue, Vailsburg. 

Holy Sepulchre — Central Avenue, opposite Maple Avenue, Newark and 
East Orange. 

Mount Olivet — Evergreen Avenue. 

Mt. Pleasant— 375 Belleville Avenue. 

Oheb Sholom— 674 and 676 High Street. 

St. John's — Rear 174 Belleville Avenue. 

Woodland — 68 Brenner Street. 



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ESSEX COUNTY IN THE U. S. CONGRESS 
Eighth District 

Eighth, Eleventh and Fifteenth Wards of Newark; Towns of Belleville, 
Bloomfield and Nutley, in Essex County, and the westerly towns of Hudson 
County. 

Representative — Edward W. Gray, 141 Wakeman Avenue, Newark. 
Ninth District 

First, Third, Sixth, Seventh, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Wards of Newark 
and cities of East Orange and Orange. 

Representative — Richard Wayne Parker, office. Prudential Building 
Newark. 

Tenth District 

Second, Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, Tenth, Twelfth, and Sixteenth Wards of 
Newark; towns of Irvington, Montclair and West Orange; boroughs of 
Caldwell, Essex Fells, Glen Ridge, North Caldwell, Roseland, Verona and 
West Caldwell; townships of Caldwell, Cedar Grove, Livingston, Millburn 
and South Orange, and Village of South Orange. 

Representative — Frederick R. Lehlbach, office, 790 Broad Street, New- 
ark. 

MILITARY 
First Brigade, N. G. N. J. 

Headquarters, Newark, consists of 1st, 4th and 5th regiments. Brigadier 
General Edwin W. Hine, couiniandlng. 

First Regiment Infantry, N. G. N. J. 
Armory, Jay Street and Sussex Avenue. Colonel, John D. Fraser; Lieuten- 
ant-Colonel, George M. Buttle; Majors Arthur H. MacKie, Alvin H. Graff, 
William H. Camfield. 

First Squadron, Cavalry 
(Troops A and C) 
Armory, 120 Roseville Avenue. Major, William A. Bryant. 

THE ESSEX COUNTY PARK SYSTEM 

When the Essex County Park Commission was created in 1895 there were 
in the entire county but 25 acres of park land. To-day the Commission 
has under its control, 3,233>i acres, upon which has been expended $3,211,500 
for land and $2,682 for improvements, a total of approximately $6,000,000. 
County Parks in Newark 

Weequahic Park, 315.08 acres, including large lake. Scene of the athletic 
games and the Pageant of the Celebration. Cost of land and improvements 
$663,000. Reached by Union, Elizabeth and Mount Prospect trolley lines. 
Motoring route: South on Broad Street, right on Clinton Avenue, left on 
Elizabeth Avenue, cross railroad, turn left into park. This largest of New- 
ark's parks occupies the site of the old Waverly State Fair, the gathering 
place of New Jersey farmers, sportsmen and politicans of a past generation. 
On Divident Hill, within its confines, commissioners from Newark and Eliza- 
beth Town met in 1688 to fix the boundary between the two places. 



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Branch Brook Park, 280.62 acres. Cost of land and Improvements, 
$2,650,000, having been developed from marsh and waste land. Its long 
reaches of water afford special opportunities for canoeing. Reached by Rose- 
ville, Bloomfield and Mount Prospect trolley lines. Motoring route: North 
on Broad Street, left on Belleville and Bloomfield Avenues left on Park Avenue. 

Eastside Park, 12.69 acres. Cost $180,000. Elm trolley line. 

Westside Park, 23.04 acres. Cost $295,000. 

Riverbank Park, 5.75 acres. Cost $183,000. Newark trolley line. 
Reservations and Parks in Suburbs 

South Mountain Reservation, West Orange, South Orange and Mill- 
burn; 1,983.32 acres; cost $391,000. This largest of the county parks 
stretches along SH miles of mountain and forest with superb views, and has 
about 15 miles of improved roads. Reached by South Orange trolley line. 
For motoring route see "Motoring Tours." 

Eagle Rock Reservation, West Orange, Montclair and Verona; 408.54 
acres; cost $355,000. Eagle Rock, although not the highest point of the 
Orange Mountains, is so situated as to command a superb prospect of the 
region around New York City, and it has been said that from this point 
may be seen the homes and workshops of more people than from any natural 
elevation in the world. Bloomfield trolley line transferring to Crosstown and 
East Orange; or Orange line transferring to Eagle Rock car. 

Watsesing Park, East Orange and Bloomfield; 70.50 acres; cost $198,000. 
Bloomfield trolley line, transfer to Crosstown. 

Orange Park, Orange and East Orange; 47.6 acres; cost $220,000. 
Reached by Central trolley line. 

Glenfield Park, Montclair and Glen Ridge; 21.75 acres; cost $78,000. 
Bloomfield trolly line. 

Anderson Park, Montclair; 11.85 acres; cost of improvements $25,000; 
land a gift from C. W. Anderson. Bloomfield trolley line, transfer to Valley 
Road. 

Irvington Park, Irvington; 24.51 acres; cost $96,000 

Yanticaw Park, Nutley (uncompleted). This far 25 acres have been 
acquired for $56,000. Paterson trolley line. 

Newark Municipal Parks 

Newark as a municipality has under the care of the Shade Tree Commis- 
sion 27 parks with a total arei of about 22 acres and valued at $9,250,000. 
The principal ones are: 

Military Park, 6.45 acres, valuation $6,000,000. Dates back to the fir.st 
settlement in 1066, when it was "The Training Ground," where the Puritan 
fathers drilled to resist possible attacks by hostile Indians. About 1800 
it was enclosed with a post and rail fence and the town shepherd herded his 
flocks there. During the Civil War it was a recruiting and drill ground for 
Union volunteers. 

W^ashington Park, 3.40 acres, valuation $1,700,000, is notable for the 
Washington Monument. At the southern end stood the old stone Academy, 
burned by the British in 1780. This park also comprises ground dedicated 
to public use by the original settlers. 

Lincoln Park, 4.37 acres, valuation $1,200,000, is the best shaded of the 
municipal parks, the worth of its 205 trees being estimated at $31,500. 



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In ClintDn l*ark, a small triangle opposite Lincoln Park, a handsome foun- 
tain designed by H. A. Caparn will be replaced by the Colleoni Statue replica 
presented by Mr. C. W. Feigenspan. 

McKinley Circle (Clinton trolley line) has the handsome bronze figure 
"The Hiker," in memory of Spanish-American War soldiers. 

Landing Place Park, at the foot of Saybrook Place, is the latest of Newark's 
municipal parks to be laid out under the control of the Shade Tree Com- 
mission, and marks, as its name indicates, the spot where Robert Treat and 
his companion settlers came ashore from their boats. 

Parkways 

Newark has in addition 15 handsomely laid out parkways with an aggre- 
gate length of 3.41 miles and area of 8.58 acres. The largest. Forest Hill 
Parkway, reached by Mount Prospect trolley, has some beautiful landscapes. 



MUNICIPAL SUPERVISION OF SHADE TREES 

Newark's Shade Tree Commission is composed of three members, resident 
freeholders, holding office by appointment of the Mayor. They serve without 
compensation, and are given by statute, "exclusive and absolute control and 
power" over the shade trees in the streets and parks of the city. 

In the old days, the shade trees were looked after in a hap-hazard fashion, 
as it was a case of what was everybody's business was nobody's business. But 
since it became the specific duty of this body to look after Newark's trees, a 
decided improvement has been noted, and the city has rapidly become one 
of the best shaded in the country. 

The Commission in the spring and fall sets out trees along the city streets 
in accordance with a well-defined plan, and under two systems known as the 
"assessment" and the "request" systems. For the first, notices are printed 
in the newspapers, and a hearing given to the property owners interested. 
An agreement is reached, and the cost of planting the trees is assessed against 
the real estate in front of which the trees are set out. The average assessment 
per tree in 1915 was $4.21, comprising only the actual cost for tree, subsoiling, 
guard, stakes, and labor. 

The "request" plan is used where property owners make formal request 
on the Commission to plant trees adjoining their property, and the expense 
is paid by bill. 

The Commission cares for all trees with tenderness and scientific skill. 
It mulches, trims, sprays, and waters them, and replaces those that die. 
But the expense of removing the dead tree is charged up to the property 
owner. The spraying is done systematically, and cocoons, egg-masses and 
borers are destroyed. 

The Shade Tree Commission has organized the children into bands of 
"Tree Protectors," and has led in the activities which developed the spirit 
and the work of Arbor Day. 

At the beginning of 1916 there were in Newark 06,000 shade trees, valued 
at $1,400,000. 



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NEWARK'S PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM 
Department of Education, City Hall 

President — Edgar R. Brown. 

Vice-President — Frank H. Sommer. 

Secretary — R. D. Argue. 

Members of the Board— Thomas J. D. Smith, John Brennig. Edgar R. 
Brown, Miss Beatrice Winser, George M. Denny, Edwin Ball, Rynier V. 
Taylor, Frank H. Sommer, Leo Stein. 

City Superintendent — A. B. Poland. 

Assistant Superintendents — David B. Corson, J. Wilmer Kennedy, E. K. 
Sexton, Cephas L Shirley. 

High Schools 

Name and Location Principal 

Barringer, 6th Avenue, Parker & Ridge Streets Wayland E. Stearns 

Central (Com'l. and Manual Training), High and New Streets 

William Wiener 
East Side (Com'l. and Manual Training), Van Buren and Warwick Streets 

Eli Pickwick, Jr. 
South Side, Johnson Avenue and Alpine Street Thos. F. Kennedy 

Grammar and Primary Schools 

Abington Avenue, corner North 7th Street Charles E. Reber 

Alexander Street, near South Orange Avenue Evan D. Edwards 

Avon Avenue, opposite Seymour Avenue Walter W. Shafifer 

Belmont Avenue, corner West Kinney Street Chas. H. Gleason, Jr. 

Bergen Street, corner Bigelow Street Morris Bamberger 

Berkeley, Peshine Avenue, near Watson Avenue S. Louise Clark 

(Annex) Dayton, near Ludlow Street 

Bruce Street, near Bank Street Kersey S. Blake 

Burnet Street, between Orange and James Streets Frank H. Hanson 

(Annex) Lawrence Street, foot of Clinton Street 

Camden Street, near 16th Avenue Hoyt H. Tucker 

Carteret, Oliver Street, near Pacific Street J. Alfred Wilson 

Central Avenue, corner Dey Street Benj. C. Miner 

Charlton Street, corner Waverly Avenue John C. McLaury 

Chestnut Street, near Mulberry Street Wm. L. Heineken 

Cleveland, Bergen Street and 17th Avenue Edgar S. Pitkin 

Eliot, corner Summer Avenue Chas. Grant Shaffer 

(Annex) Summer Place, near Chester Avenue 

Fifteenth Avenue, corner 15th Street Corliss F. Randolph 

Fourteenth Avenue, corner South 9th Street Stephen B. Gilhuly 

Franklin, Park Avenue and Cutler Street Arthur G. Balcom 

Garfield, North 7th Street near Park Avenue Thos. T. Collard 

Hamburg Place, near Ferry Street Fred W. Fort 

Hawkins Street, near Ferry Street Warren A. Roe 

Hawthorne, Hawthorne Avenue near Clinton Place Robt. A. McDonald 

John Catlin, Ann Street between New York Avenue and Milford Road 

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Lafayette, corner Prospect Street Geo. R. Pinkham 

Lincoln, Richelieu Terrace, near Cliff Street Gray M. Moreland 

Madison, South 16th Street, near Madison Avenue Samuel H. Mcllroy 

McKinley, 7th Avenue and Factory Street Walter J. Greene 

Milford, 18th Avenue and Livingston Street S. Ervin Manness 

Miller Street, near Sherman Avenue Alex J. Glennie 

(Annex) Elizabeth Avenue, near Bigelow Street 

Monmouth Street, near Spruce Street Wm. A. McDougall 

Montgomery, corner Broome Street Thos. K. McClelland 

Morton Street, corner Broome Street Otto H. Schulte 

Newton, near South Orange Avenue Claude L. West 

Ridge, near Montclair Avenue Clara Zahn 

Robert Treat, 13th Avenue and Richmond Street Martin Luther Cox 

Roseville Avenue, near Orange Street Harold H. Phillips 

South Street, corner Hermon Street Frank L. Mead 

South Eighth Street, near Central Avenue Wilhelm B. Hoenemann 

South Market Street, corner Mott Street Raymond B. Gurley 

South Tenth Street, corner Blum Street Arnold Voget 

(Annex) Blum Street, near South 10th Street 

Summer Avenue, near 2d Avenue Clinton D. Brownell 

Sussex Avenue, corner 3d Street Jas. Eggenberger 

Walnut Street, near Jefferson Street S. Fannie Car'.er 

Warren Street, corner Wickliffe Street Warren O. Hager 

Washington Street, near West Kinney Street Harry F. Stauffer 

Waverly Avenue, near Bergen Street Karl G. Schmidt 

Webster, near Crane Street Geo. I. Brinkerhoff 

West Side, 17th Avenue, opposite West Side Park Bart. F. Monaghan 




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NEWARK'S PHILANTHROPIES 

(May 19th and 20th have been designated as visiting days to Newark's 
charitable institutions.) 

Newark deserves the title of a philanthropic city. To its credit be it said 
there are sixty-five private philanthropic organizations in the city besides 
municipal, county, and state agencies. 




Miss Katharine Quinn as Paints and Colors in Industrial Dance 

Among the private charities premiership must be given to the Newark 
Female Charitable Society, an organization that is still virile and influential 
though it has celebrated some time since its One Hundredth Birthday. This 
organization held its first meeting January 31st, 1803. Among its workers 
now are descendants of those who originally gave of their time and means in 
forwarding its work. The Newark Orphan Asylum was organized in 1848 and 
the Protestant Foster Home in the same year. The Crazy Jane Society 
was organized in 1850 and St. Mary's Orphan Aslyum in 1853. From the 



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standpoint of modernness and the social value of the work is the Division of 
Child Hygiene of the Newark Board of Health. This agency is only three 
years old but is doing a work of significance and of great social value to the 
city. 

Newark has 14 hospitals and institutions for the sick and ailing. These 
include the Babies' Hospital, Beth Israel, City Hospital (maintained by the 
city), German Hospital, the Hospital for Women and Children, St. Barna- 
bas', St. James', St. Michael's, The Presbyterian Hospital, The Home (it is a 
hospital) for Crippled Children, The Home for Incurables and Hospital, 
Homeopathic Hospital, Eye and Ear Infirmary, Tuberculosis Hospital at 
Verona (maintained by the city). In addition to the above, there are the 
county institutions giving treatment to those suffering from contagious diseases 
and to advanced tuberculosis. There is also the State Hospital for incipient 
tuberculosis at Glen Gardner. 

To provide nursing for the sick, there is the Visiting Nurse Association 
with headquarters at 16 Camp Street. The Anti-Tuberculosis Association, 
of which Francis J. Swayze is President, which does a follow-up work of pre- 
vention and education in tuberculous cases. The city spent last year on its 
medical charities over $325,000. 




'Little Island," near Boulder Bridge, Branch Brook Park 



For befriending needy families in their homes there are 9 societies in New- 
ark. These include the Bureau of Associated Charities, the Female Charita- 
ble Society, the Crazy Jane Society, The Hebrew Benevolent Society, the 
Hebrew Ladies' Sewing Circle, Hebrew Ladies' Immediate Relief Society, 
the West Side Ladies' Relief Society, the Society of St. Vincent de Paul 
with its many branches, and the Poor and Alms Department of the city. To 
these agencies may be added the New Jersey Legal Aid Society, of which 
Mayor Raymond is President, which furnishes free legal advice and a poor 
man's lawyer; also the Needlework Guild which supplies free garments to 
institutions and individuals. The 7 day nurseries may be grouped here: 



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Thos. C. B. Treat, Descendant of Robert Treat in Pageant Costume 



The Crazy Jane Society Nursery in the Female Charitable Society Building, 
the East Side Day Nursery, the Day Nursery of the 8th Avenue Baby Shelter, 
the Burke Memorial Day Nursery in the Branch Brook section, the Sarah 
Ward Memorial Day Nursery, the Day Nursery connected with the Jewish 
Sisterhood, 17th Avenue and Livingston St., and the Holy Angels' Day 
Nursery recently organized by the Catholic women of St. Rose of Lima's 
Church. 



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For the relief of homeless, needy and delinquent children, Newark has 
made ample provision. There are 8 institutions for the continuous care, 
day and night, of children, besides two Children's Aid organizations, one 
Protestant and one Catholic, for the general care and protection of children. 
Among the institutions are the 8th Avenue Baby Shelter and Day Nursery, 
the Protestant Foster Home, the Protestant Orphan Asylum, the Home for 
the Friendless, the Newark Orphan Asylum, St. Mary's Orphan Asylum, 
St. Peter's, and the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The children's societies are the 
Children's Aid and S. P. C. C, 249 Mulberry Street, an active, vigorous, or- 
ganization that has revived and broadened its work, and the Catholic Chil- 
dren's Aid Society, located in the Social Service Building, 13 Central Avenue, 
which represents an advanced work among Catholics looking to the protec- 
tion and the home-care of neglected Catholic children in the diocese. The 
institutions and societies for the care of children expended about $150,000 
during the last report year. 

Provision is made for the homeless in two industrial lodging houses, the 
J. Clement French Industrial Home at 51 Plane Street, and the Rescue Home 
at 15 Spring Street. The Salvation Army maintains an industrial building 
at 405 N. J. R. R. Avenue in which rescue work is done for men. These men 
are employed driving salvage wagons which collect the cast-off material from 
the citizens and in sorting and baling this material. Much valuable rescue 
work has been done in connection with this institution under the present de- 
voted Salvation Army officer. For homeless women, besides the Rescue 
Home, there is the Sophia Cory T/odging House for Women, 108 Quitman 
Street, a private philanthropy recently started with money left by the one 
for whom it is named. 

Provision for the homeless aged is made by the City of Newark at is newt 
Almshouse. The term "Almshouse" is to be dropped and the new institution 
is to be called Newark's Home for the Aged. This building is at Ivy Hill, 
splendidly located for the health and happiness of these old people. The 
private homes are the Baptist Home, Bethany Home, Job Haines' Home, The 
Protestant Home for Respectable Aged Women, the Gottfried Krueger Greisen- 
heim (now practically a private Home maintained entirely by Judge Krueger), 
Daughters of Israel Home for the Aged, 54-60 Sterling Street, and the Colored 
Home for the Aged in Irvington. This is the only colored Home in Northern 
New Jersey. 

For the protection of wayward girls, private philanthropy maintains a 
Christian Refuge at 107 Mechanic Street and the Florence Crittenton Home 
on Mt. Pleasant Avenue, one of a chain of Homes maintained by the Florence 
Crittenton League throughout the United States. 

In the Newark schools are maintained special classes for sub-normal and 
defective children. These include classes for the blind, for the deaf-mute, 
and for the feeble minded. In Newark is the headquarters of the State Com- 
mission for the Blind, a Commission that maintains a census of the blind of 



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the State and conducts classes for teaching the blind to read and for broaden- 
ing their interests, also industrial classes through which the blind are taught 
self-supporting occupations. 

Among the social betterment agencies, the last of the group, may be includ- 
ed the Silver Lake Welfare Association, operating in the northern end of 
the city, also the Public Welfare Committee which has done signal service in 
arousing interest in civic welfare. 

Through these private and public philanthropic agencies is spent each 
year a total of nearly $2,000,000; on the private charities alone more than 
$900,000. 

The logic of the situation requires a central organization which shall study 
the city problem as a whole and shall operate to the end of bringing system 
and method into the activities of these charities and in increasing co-opera- 
tion so that they may accomplish definite ends. The Bureau of Associated 
Charities performs this function for the city. It is one of a chain of 240 similar 



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organizations stretching throughout the United States. Regardless of its 
personnel, the possession of such an organization and the degree of adequacy 
with which it is supported is a pretty fair index of the intelligence with which 
a city is meeting its problem of poverty. The Bureau has the function of 
"organizing" the private charity of the community and of giving purpose and 
method to individual charity. 



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HOSPITALS 

Homeopathic Hospital for Essex County. 133-137 Littleton Avenue. 

Hospital for Women and Children — Corner Central Avenue and South 
10th Street. 

Hospital of St. Barnabas' — 685 High Street. Under the care of the 
Sisters of St. Margaret (Episcopal). Visiting days, Sundays, Tuesdays and 
Thursdays, from 2 to 3 P. M. Patients suffering from severe accidents ad- 
mitted unconditionally at any hour of day or night. Other patients, without 
regard to sex, color, nationality or creed, between 9 A. M., and 5 P. M. 

Newark Beth Israel Hospital and Dispensary — 651 High Street. 

Newark City Hospital — 116 Fairmount Avenue. Under control of the 
Board of Health. 

Newark Emergency Hospital — 392 Washington Street. 

Newark General Dispensary^690 Springfield Avenue. 

Newark German Hospital — Newton, corner Bank Street. 

Newark Tuberculosis Sanatorium — Located at Verona, N. J. 

Presbyterian Hospital in Newark, New Jersey and Training School for 
Nurses — 13-27 South Ninth Street; Nurses' Home, 24 South Ninth Street. 

St. James' Asylum and Hospital — Jefferson and Elm Streets. 

St. Micahel's Hospital — 306 High Street corner Central Avenue. Open to 
all without distinction of race, religion or color. 

The Babies' Hospital— 437-439 High Street. 




Newark on-Trent, Nottinghamshire, England 

CHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS 

Baptist Home for the Aged— 285 Roseville Avenue. 
Bureau of Associated Charities — 13 Central Avenue. 
Burke Memorial Day Nursery — 554 5th Street. 



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Catholic Children Aid Association of New Jersey^lS Central Avenue. 

Children's Aid and Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children of 
Essex County — 249 Mulberry Street. 

Christian Refuge — 109 Mechanic Street. 

East Side Day Nursery — 71 Merchant Street. 

Eighth Avenue Baby Shelter and Day Nursery — 61 Eighth Avenue. 

Florence Crittenton Home — 228 Mt. Pleasant Avenue. 

Gottfried Krueger Home — Clinton place near St. James Place. 

Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society — 536 Clinton Avenue. 

Hebrew Benevolent and Orphan Asylum Society and Hebrew United 
Charities — 129 Montgomery. 

Hebrew Free Loan Association — 207 W. Kinney Street. 

Home for Crippled Children — Corner Fifth and Clifton Avenues. 

Home for Incurables and Hospital — 102 and 104 Court Street. 





Augustus V. Hamburg 
Chairman industrial Exposition 



Henry M. Dorenuis 
Former Mayor, City of Newark 



Home for Respectable Aged Women — 225 Mount Pleasant Avenue. 

Home for the Aged — Warren corner South Eighth Street. In charge of 
Little Sisters of the Poor. 

Home for the Friendless — South Orange Avenue, corner Bergen Street. 

House of the Good Shepherd — Thirteenth Avenue and Eighth Street. 

J. Clement French Industrial Home for Men — 51 Plane Street. 

New Jersey Association for Suppression of Vice and Imposture — 207 
Market Street. 

New Jersey Conference of Charities and Correction — (38) 45 Clinton 
Street. 

Newark Charitable Eye and Ear, Infirmary — 77 Central Avenue. Open 
for outdoor eye and ear patients daily, except Sundays, at 2 P. M. For throat 
and nose patients, 11 A. M. 

Newark Free Dental Clinic Association, (for Children) — 74 Newton 
Street, 553 Market Street and 297 Orange Street, open from 9 A. M., to fl 
P. M., except Sundays and holidays. 



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Newark Female Charitable Society — Founded 1803. Industrial Building, 
305 Halsey Street. 

Crazy Jane Society, Auxiliary to Newark Female Charitable Society — 
305 Halsey Street. 

Newark Orphan Aslyum — 323 High Street. 

Newark Rescue Home — 15 Spring Street. 

Nursery of the Holy Angels — -Meets every Monday at 38 Mulberry. 

Pattie Watkins" Home for Needy Children — Office 911 Broad Street. 
Home at Lyons Farms. 

Presbyterian Deaconess' Home — 109 13th Avenue. 

Protestant Foster Home Socictj- — 284 Belleville Avenue. 

Ridgely Home for Orphans of Odd Fellows — 22-26 Halleck Street. 

Salvation Army Industrial Home for Men — 305 New Jersey Railroad 
Avenue. 





Christian W. Feigenspan 
Executive and Finance Committee 



David H. Merritt 
Treasurer, Committee of One Hundred 



Sarah Ward Day Nursery — 27 Jay Street. 

Sisters of Charity — 14 Court House Place. 

Sisters of Christian Charity Convent — 160 Sussex Avenue. 

St. Mary's Orphanage — South Orange Avenue, corner Sandford Avenue. 

St. Peter's Orphan Asylum and Kindergarten — 21 Livingston Street. 

St. Peter's Young Men's Orphan Aid Society — Meets first Tuesday of 
each month at 42 Belmont Avenue. 

West Side Ladies Relief Society — Meets second and fourth Monday of 
each month at 64 Morton Street. 

Young Men's Christian Association — 107-111 Halsey Street. 

Young Women's Christian Association — Central Building, 53 Washington 
Street. 

SCHOOLS 

Industrial 

Boys' Industrial, Wickliffe Street, corner School Street James E. Dougan 

Girls' Industrial, Washington & Linden Streets Griselda Ellis 



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The Reverse of the 250th Aiiniversiiry Medal, by Kratina 

Ungraded Schools 

No. 1, South 10th Street, near Woodland Avenue Mrs. H. F. Bchrendt 

No. 2, Chestnut Street, near Elm Street Mrs. Mary E. Gorman 

Academy Street, Nos. 55-57 M. Ida Dean 

For Defectives 

Alyea Street 

Central Avenue 

Coe's Place 

Newton 

State Street Meta L. Andreson, Supervisor 

For Deaf 

Washington and Linden Streets Grace L. Wright 

For BHnd 

Washington Street Janet G. Paterson 

Open Air Schools 

Camden Street Hoyt H. Tucker 

Elizabeth Avenue Vienna Y. Combs 



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Lafayette George R. Pinkham 

Montgomery Thomas K. McCelland 

Morton Street Otto H. Schulte 

For Crippled Children 

(Franklin Annex) A. G. Balcom 

Number of public scliool buildings, 67. 
Value of public school property, $10,348,675. 
Cost of maintenance for 1915, $.3,028,760. 
Number of day pupils, 69,994. 
Number of teachers, 1,810. 



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Newark Technical School 

303-371 High Street 

President — James F. Fielder. 
Vice-President — Samuel E. Robertson, M.D, 
Secretary — Charles A. Colton. 
Treasurer — John B. Stobaeus. 



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Newark Institute of Arts and Sciences 

367 High Street 

President, Samuel E. Robertson, M.D.; Vice-Presidents, Frank H. Som- 
mer, Addison B. Poland, David B. Corson; Secretary, Horatio M. Van Sant; 
Treasurer, Franklin Conklin, Jr.; Registrar, Earl Tharp. 



NEW JERSEY HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

The New Jersey Historical Society was organized in the City Hall, Trenton, 
on February 27, 1845. There had been held a previous meeting in Trenton 
on January 13th, attended, because of a severe snow storm, by but a small 
group of men who did little more than appoint a committee to draft the in- 
struments of organization. At the February meeting a constitution and by- 
laws were adopted. 




New Jersey Historical Society Building 



On May 7, 1845, according to a resolution of the February meeting, the 
roll of charter members was closed with a membership of 88, of which number 
26 were residents of Newark. 

Sons and grandsons of the founders of the Historical Society are present 
members of the organization, and some are members of the Committee of 
One Hundred on the 250th Anniversary of Newark. 

The Society's building is located at 18 West Park Street, near Broad. It is 
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genealogists and antiquarians find there rich mines of documentary and pub- 
lished material well-indexed and ready for investigation. The business of 
the Society, is history, biography, genealogy, and related branches; and 
through the dues and gifts of a membership that is distributed throughout 
the State, the efficiency of the institution is maintained. Anybody of worthy 
character may belong to this learned institution by the payment of the re- 
quired dues following election by the board of trustees. 

The publications of the Society are numerous. The Proceedings have 
gone through 33 volumes, the Collections through 8, and the Archives now 
number 31. In these a great mass of historical material presented in various 
literary forms is found. 

The officers of the Society are: President, Francis J. Swayze; Vice- 
Presidents, Charles M. Lum, George R. HoAve, Charles Bradley; Correspond- 
ing Secretary, A. Van Doren Honeyman; Recording Secretary and Librarian, 





Alexander Archibald 
Executive and Finance Committee 



James R. Nugent 
Executive and Finance Committee 



Joseph F. Folsom; Treasurer, William C. Morton. The trustees are Joseph 
M. Riker, Edwin B. Goodell, Hiram E. Deats, J. Lawrence Boggs, James J. 
Bergen, Austin Scott, Wallace M. Scudder, Edwin S. Lines, Frank Bergen, 
Charles W. Parker, Frederick A. Canfield, William J. Magie, Edwin R. Walker, 
and William S. Disbrow. 

The Society has an enterprising auxiliary organization composed of women 
from all parts of the State known as the Woman's Branch. Its officers are: 
President, Miss Mary McKeen; Vice-Presidents, Mrs. George Batten, Mrs. 
Charles W. Parker, Mrs. Henry S. White; Recording Secretary, Miss S. F. 
Condict; Treasurer, Mrs. Arthur H. MacKie; Historian, Miss Ginevra Free- 
man; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Mary Louise Wheeler; .\uditor, Mrs. 
Ruth E. Fairchild. 



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YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEWARK 

101-111 Halsey Street 

President, Henry H. Dawson; Vice-President, J. H. Bacheller; Recording 
Secretary, William H. Ward; General Secretary, Henry A. Cozzens; Treas- 
urer, William S. Hartshorne. 

Gymnasium open week days 9:30 A. M. to 10 P. M.; 4,000 square feet 
floor surface; complete apparatus; running track 25 laps to the mile; classes in 
physical training; swimming pool 25,000 gallons; ten shower baths; hand- 
ball court. 

Employment department open 9 to 11 A. M. 

Wallace Hall, auditorium, seats S84i. 

Dormitory department — 124 bedrooms for young men. 

List of boarding and rooming houses on file. 

Educational department — Classes in Accountancy, Aero Club (Boys), 
Architectural Drawing, Automobile, Bible Classes, Boy Leaders' Training 





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Executive and Finance Committee 



Richard C. Jenkinson 
Executive and Finance Committee 



Class, Business Administration, Business Course (Boys), Camera Club (Boys), 
Camera Club (Men), Civil Service: Postal Clerk, Letter Carrier, Railway 
Mail, Policeman; Commercial Law, Cost Accounting, Electricity (Labora- 
tory Course), Elementary Electricity (Boys) English for Foreigners, First 
Aid to the Injured (Boys), Mechanical Drawing, Modeling (Boys), Modern 
Languages, Orchestra Training, Personal Efficiency (Emerson Course), 
Printing (Boys), Salesmanship, Training for Sunday School Workers, Train- 
ing for Social Service, Tutoring. 



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YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION 

53 Washington Street. Young women are invited to use the building. 
Reading room, rest room, lunch room, gymnasium, swimming pool, shower 
baths, educational classes, employment bureau, roof garden attractions. 
Boarding homes are recommended. 



MUSICAL SOCIETIES 

Bayrischer Saengerbund — Meets every Wednesday at 324 Springfield 
Avenue. 

Bell Glee Club— Meets at Nolls Hall, 240 Springfield Avenue. 

Liberty Singing Society — Meets every Friday at 704-708 South 14th Street. 

L' Union Chorale — Meets first Tuesday at 32 S. Orange Avenue. 

Lyric Club — Meets every Thursday afternoon at 593 Broad Street. 

Maennerchor Hoffnung — Meets every Friday corner Nye and Hobson 
Streets. 

Musicians' Club — 671 Broad Street. 

Newark Music Festival Association — (Room 414) 671 Broad Street. 

Oratorio Society (Schubert) — Monday evenings from September to May 
in Music Hall, 17 Centre. 

Orpheus Club — Meets every Monday at Musicians' Temple, 401 Plane 
Street. 

Schweiser Alpen-Saenger Club — Meets every Tuesday at 324 Springfield 
Avenue. 

Socialistische Liedertafel — Meets every Tuesday at Labor Lyceum, 704- 
708 S. 14th Street. 

Vocal Art Club — Meets every Tuesday at 123 Orchard Street. 

Woodside Liederkranz — Meets every Monday at 853 Summer Avenue. 



United Singers of Newark — Meets second Sunday at Krueger Auditorium. 

Arion — Meets every Thursday at Krueger Auditorium, Belmont Avenue. 

Aurora M. G. V. — Meets every Friday evening at Aurora Hall, 48 William 
Street. 

Badische Liedertafel — Meets every Monday at 19th Avenue, corner S. 
17th Street. 

Beethoven Maennerchor — -Meets every Tuesday evening at 166 McWhor- 
ter Street. 

Concordia M. G. V. — Meets every Thursday at Hensler's Auditorium, 
80 Hamburg Place. 

Germania Singing Society — Meets every Friday at Krueger's Auditorium. 

Harmonic Singing Society — Meets every Monday at 425 Springfield 
Avenue. 

Orpheus Liederkranz, M. C. V. — Meets every Monday at 209 Ferry Street. 

Phoenix, M. G. V. — Meets every Tuesday and first Sunday at 529 Spring- 
field Avenue. 

Schwaebischer Saengerbund — Meets every Tuesday at 593 Springfield 
Avenue. 



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Swiss Alpine Singing Club — Meets every Tuesday at Dassing's Hall, Sii 
Springfield Avenue. 

West Newark Quartette Club — Meets every Sunday afternoon at 344 
Hunterdon Street. 

Musical Culture Club, Newark Chapter, No. 2 — 17 Centre Street. 

American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists and Guitarists, Newark 
Chapter, No. 1 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 81 Congress Street. 

Eintracht Instrument Musical Society — Meets every Monday at 842 
Broad Street. 

Beethoven Music Club — Meets alternate Fridays. President, Mary 
Van Gunten. 



THE NEWARK MUSEUM 

occupies a portion of the Free Public Library Building. Director, John 
Cotton Dana. Open daily 12 M. to 6:30 P.M., 7:30 to 9:30 P. M.; Sundays 




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2 to 6, 7:30 to 9 P. M. Exhibits include paintings, sculpture, minerals, Jap- 
anese art, Thibetan curios, ethnological models. New Jersey bird life, insects, 
fish, pottery, fibres and textiles. 

Board of Trustees 
Free Public Library 

President, Hon. Thomas L. Raymond, Mayor (ex-ofEcio). 
Addison B. Poland, Superintendent of Public Schools (ex-oflScio). 
Edward T. Ward, James E. Howell, J. Henry Bacheller, Richard C. 
Jenkinson, Forrest F. Dryden. 
Treasurer, Edward T. Ward. 
Secretary and Librarian, John Cotton Dana. 



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The Newark Museum Association 

Franklin Murphy, President. 

J. William Clark, First Vice-President. 

James S. Higbie, Second Vice-President. 

Peter Campbell, Third Vice-President. 

Charles Bradley, Treasurer. 

John Cotton Dana, Secretary and Director. 

NEWARK'S WATER SUPPLY 

The drinking water supplied to Newark's inhabitants by the city from 
its own plants is of ideal purity. It was so pronounced as long ago as George 
Washington's administration by experts appointed by Alexander Hamilton. 
It comes more than thirty miles through pipes from the everlasting hills of 
the Pequannock region in Morris, Passaic and Sussex counties. To safe- 
guard the absolute purity of the supply whole villages have been obliterated, 
and fertile valleys turned into lakes. The City of Newark is the largest land- 
owner in New Jersey. Its holdings of realty in the Pequannock watershed, 
about 25,000 acres, surpass in area the forest reserve of the State. 

Until the beginning of the 18th century Newark was supplied with water 
from springs and wells. In 1799 the Legislature chartered the Newark Acque- 
duct Company, which built the first reservoir on Orange Street, above High. 
Wooden pipes and even hollowed logs were used. Workmen in recent years 
have unearthed some of these primitive conduits. The water came from 
Branch Brook. 

In 1865 a reservoir and pumping station were established on the Passaic 
River above Belleville. This plant was abandoned nearly 30 years later on 
account of the pollution of the river, and in 1892 the first water from the 
Pequannock region was turned on. 

Expended by city on Pequannock water system: 

Land $ 7,682,500 

Improvements 7,771,000 

Possible benefits accruing 5,780,500 



$21,234,000 
Reservoirs and Capacity 

Oak Ridge 2,555 million gallons 

Clinton 3,518 

Canistear 2,407 

Echo Lake 612 

Macopin 32 

Cedar Grove 678.7 

Belleville 14 

South Orange Avenue 9 

Daily capacity, watershed, gallons 50,000,000 

Average daily consumption, gallons 42,400,000 

Number of gallons, per capita. 110 

Number of miles of mains (low pressure system) 422.33 



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Number of taps (low pressure system) 58,177 

Number of taps in use (low pressure system) 47,308 

Number of fire hydrants (low pressure system) 3,239 

Range of pressure, lbs. per sq. in. (low pressure syst.) 25 to 75 

Number of meters in use (low pressure system) 28,694 

Cost per 1,000 cu. ft. (low pressure system) $ 1.00 

Number of miles of pipe (high pressure system) 19.68 

Number of connections, diflFerent sizes (high pressure 

system) 116 

Number of hydrants (high pressure system) 288 

Average range of pressure, lbs. per sq. in. (high pres- 
sure system) 100 to 160 

Number of storage and distributing reservoirs 8 

Storage capacity of reservoirs 9,825.7 million gallons 

NEWARK FIRE DEPARTMENT 
Board of Fire Commissioners 

Gilbert E. Croghan, President Hubert F. Hahn 

C. Blake Carrington George B. Astley 

Secretary Charles S. Smith 

Numerical force 466 Men 

Number of organized companies 39 Men 

Number of fire quarters (buildings) 33 Men 

Apparatus 

18 horse-drawn steamers in active service. 

4 horse-drawn steamers in reserve. 
20 combination chemical engines (horse drawn). 

3 hose wagons in reserve (horse drawn). 

2 horse-drawn hook and ladder trucks in active service. 

6 tractor-drawn hook and ladder trucks in active service. 

2 horse-drawn hook and ladder trucks in reserve. 

1 horse-drawn water tower. 

6 motor-driven fire engines (pumping). 

2 tractor-drawn fire engines. 

1 motor-driven combination chemical engine. 
1 gas-electric-driven hook and ladder truck. 
1 motor-driven searchlight car. 

3 automobiles for chiefs. 

1 automobile for commissioners. 

Number of feet of hose in service 59,000 

Value of apparatus and equipment $561,023.65 

Value of land and buildings $867,250.00 

Total value of Fire Department property $1,428,273.65 

Cost of maintaining Fire Department for year 1915 $713,430.83 

Fire loss for 1915 $995,110.00 

Number of alarms in 1915 1,795 



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Roster of the Fire Department 

Chief Engineer Paul J. Moore 

Deputy Chief M. P. A. McDermitt 

Deputy Chief John J. Towey 

Battalion Chief Herman Schweickhardt 

Batallion Chief George F. Lynch 

Battalion Chief Dennis Guidera 

Battalion Chief Charles C. Storch 

Battalion Chief Thomas S. Reilly 

Inspector of Combustibles and Fire Risks C. Albert Gasser 

File Clerk Roy Faitoute 

Assistant to Inspector J. L. Jenkinson 

Assistant to Inspector Thos. M. Gunning 

Assistant to Inspector Fred J. Moehring 

Assistant to Inspector Emil Buhrer 

Assistant to Inspector Anthony C. Helfrich 




Pipe Fountain, Branch Brook Park 



Assistant to Inspector , Fred A. Reiff 

Assistant to Inspector Albert Shields 

Assistant to Inspector Robert D. Bender 

Department Surgeon Hugh M. Hart 

Department Veterinarian James T. Glennon 

Chaplain Rev. James Clayton Howard 

Chaplain Rev. Michael P. Corcoran 

Superintendent of Telegraph Adam Bosch 

Salvage Corps 

227 Washington Street 
Superintendent Henry S. Martin 



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CHURCHES 
Baptist 

Bethany (colored)— 267 Bank Street, Pastor, Rev. R. D. Wynn, D.D. 

Clinton Avenue — Clinton Avenue corner Monmouth Street. Pastor, 
Rev. Riley A. Vose. 

Elizabeth Avenue — Lyons Avenue near Elizabeth Avenue. Pastor, Rev. 
George McNeely. 

Emmanuel — Montclair Avenue, corner Clinton Avenue. Pastor, Rev. 
E. O. Wilson. 

Fairmount — 141 Fairniount Avenue. Pastor, Rev. John R. Humphreys. 

Fifth— 110 Prospect Street. Pastor, Rev. Clifford Littell LaDuc. 

First (Peddie Memorial) — 572 Broad Street. Pastor, Rev. M. Joseph 
Twomey. 

First German — Clinton Avenue, corner S. Hth Street. Pastor, Rev. 
Raymond J. Hack. 

First Italian — 25 Mr. Prospect Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Carmine Pagano. 

First Slovak— 28 Mercer Street. Pastor, Rev. Norbert F. Capek; Assist- 
ant Pastor, Rev. John Pietrowski. 

First Swedish — 55 Roseville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Carl D. Westerdahl. 

Galilee (colored) — 181 Livingston Street. Pastor, Rev. Jesse Washing- 
ton. 

Evangelical United Brethren German — Wickliffe Street, near South 
Orange Avenue. Pastor, Rev. H. Frederick Hoops. 

Lyons Farms Church — Lyons Avenue, corner Elizabeth Avenue. Pastor, 
Rev. George McNeely 

Lyons Farms Mission — 865 Bergen Street. Pastor, George McNeely; 
Minister in Charge, Gustav Fleishman. 

Morning Star — 28 Sussex Avenue. Pastor, Rev. D. E. Robinson. 

Mt. Olivet (colored) — 110 8th Avenue. Pastor, Rev. William W. Flem- 
ing. 

Mt. Pleasant — 288 Belleville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. E. Ward Pickering. 

Mt. Zion (colored) — Thomas, corner Hermon Street. Pastor, Rev. John 
R. Brown. 

North — Orange corner High Street. Minister in charge, Rev. Charles C. 
Cook. 

Roseville — Warren Street, corner Gould Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Albert 
Foster, D.D. 

Second German — 367-373 Walnut Street. Pastor Rev. Henry R. Schroe- 
der. 

South — 19 East Kinney Street. Pastor, Rev. Clark T. Brownell. 

Union (colored) — 88 Somerset Street. Pastor, Rev. Thomas T. Tucker. 



Christadelphian 

Newark Ecclesia — Musicians" Temple, 401 Plane Street. Secretary, 
Wilbur P. Brittle. 



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Christian Science 

First Church of Christ— 16 Hill Street. First Reader, Walter Macin- 
tosh; Second Reader, Mrs. Frances D. Tongue. 

Second Church of Christ — 2d Avenue and Garside Street. First Reader, 
Maximum E. Arrindell; Second Reader, Mrs. Mary M. Potter. 



Congregational 

Belleville Avenue — Belleville Avenue, opposite Crittenden Street. Pastor, 
Rev. Ross F. Wicks, D.D. 

First Jube Memorial — Clinton Avenue, corner Wright Street. Minister, 
Rev. T. Aird Moffat. 



Episcopal 

Christ, Pro. Cathedral — 81 Congress Street. Rector, Rev. Frank H. 
Hallock. 

St. James — 119 Belleville Avenue. Rector, Rev. T. Percival Bate. 

Grace — 960 Broad Street. Rector, Rev. Charles L. Gomph; Assistant, 
Rev. Ralph H. Hayden. 

House of Prayer — 407 Broad Street. Rector, Rev. John S. Miller. 

St. Andrew's — Clinton Avenue, corner South 17th Street. Rector, Rev. 
Charles H. Wells. 

St. Barnabas' — Sussex Avenue, corner Warren Street. Rector, Rev. 
Henry V. B. Darlington. 

St. George's — 24 Alexander Street, Vailsburg. Rectorship vacant. 

St. John's — Ehvood Avenue, corner Lincoln Avenue. Rector, Rev. 
Albert M. Farr. 

St. Mark's — Ridge Street, corner Heller Parkway. Rector, Rev. A. 
W. H. Thompson. 

St. Mary Magdalene — Pomona Avenue, corner Hedden Street. Rector, 
Rev. P. Curtis Bissell. 

St. Matthew's — Avon Avenue corner Chadwick Avenue. Rector, Rev. 
Byron C. Curtiss. 

St. Paul's— 456 High Street. Rector, Rev. Henry H. Hadley, B. D. 

St. Philip's (colored)— 336 High Street. Rector, Rev. Robert D. Brown. 

St. Stephen's — 11 Elizabeth Avenue. Rector, E. A. Wasson. 

St. Thomas — Roseville and Park Avenues. Rector, Rev. John C. Don- 
nell. 

Trinity — 608 Broad Street. Rector, Rev. Mercer Green Johnston; Assist- 
ant, Rev. Henry E. Spear. 

St. Alban's Mission — 244 South 8th Street. Rev. H. Landon Rice, priest 
in charge. 



Evangelical 

First German — S. 17th Street corner Avon Avenue. Pastor, Rev. J. 
M. Hoelzer. 



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German Zion — 17 Alexander Street, Vailsburg. Pastorate vacant. 

German United Essex Park — Bragaw Avenue near Dewey Street. Pas- 
tor, Rev. E. J. Schmidt, Ph.D. 

Roseville German — 87-95 Fifth Street. Pastor, Rev. William L. Siebert. 

St. Stephan's German — Ferry Street, corner Hamburg Place. Pastor, 
Rev. Edward Fuhrmann. 

Greek Orthodox 

St. Michael's (Russian) — Oliver, corner Van Buren Street. Rector, 
Rev. John Kpoxmalnol. 

St. Nicholas Church of the Greek Orthodox Community — 149 Academy 
Street. Rector, Thomas Papagcorge. 











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Independent 

Independent Church of God and Saints of Christ — 20 Lewis Street. 
E. M. D. Morris, Queen of Israel; Evangelists, F. M. Hamilton and Lemuel 
Lewis. 

Jewish 

Temple B'nai Jeshurum — Rabbi Solomon Foster. 

B'nai Abraham — High Street, corner 13th Avenue. Rabbi, Rev. Julius 
Silberfeld. 

Congregation Adas Israel — 32-34 Prince Street. Rabbi, Rev. M. Pol- 
lack. 

Congregation Ahavath Zion — Second Wednesday of each month at 16th 
Avenue. President, Louis Zapeskov. 

Congregation Anche Russia — First and third Sundays at 224 West Kinney 
Street. Rabbi, Rev. Hyman Brodsky. 



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Congregation Anshe Sfard — 157 Prince Street. Rabbi, Baer Hailperin. 

Congregation Oheb-Shalom — 672 High Street. Rabbi, Rev. Charles I. 
Hoffman. 

Congregation Rousow of Ahrow — 117 Mulberry Street. President, 
Max Goldstein. 

Congregation Thoras Ernes — 79 Jefferson, corner Ferry Street. President, 
Emanuel Schoen. 

Synagogue Kesser Tora — 204 Prince Street. Rabbi, Rev. Solomon Meyer 
Halperin. 

Temple B'nai Jeshurun — 783 High Street. Rabbi, Rev. Solomon Foster; 
Rabbi Emeritus, Rev. Joseph Leucht. 

United Hebrew Congregation of Newark — 221 West Kinney Street. 
Chief Rabbi, Baer Hailperin. 

Congregation Ein Jacob — 11 Jones Street, Orthodox Jewish Synagogue. 
President, Osias Henig. 



Lutheran 

Advent — Union Hall, 890 S. Orange Avenue, Vailsburg. 

Danish — 43 Newton Street. Pastor, Rev. V. A. N. Mortcnsen, New 
York. 

Emanuel Swedish — 17-19 Bruce Street. Pastor, Rev. Alfred Ostund, 
Arlington. 

Evangelical St. Matthew's — 282 Peshine Avenue. Pastor, Theodore 
S. Keyl. 

First German-English St. John's — Avon Avenue, corner South 10th Street 
Pastor, Rev. O. E. Braune. 

Grace English — 15 Mercer Street. Pastor, Rev. M. S. Waters. 

Holy Trinity Slavonic — 177 East Kinney Street. Pastor, Rev. Ludwig 
Novomesky. 

St. John's German — 140 Court Street. Pastor, Rev. Bernhard Pick. 

St. Paul's German Evangelical — 308 Bergen Street. Pastor, Rev. M. A. 
L. Hirsch. 

Trinity (English) — Waverly Avenue, near 18th Avenue. Pastor, Rev. 
William H. W. Reimer. 



Methodist Episcopal 

District Superintendent, Rev. George G. Vogel, D.D. 

Centenary — Summer Avenue, corner Kearny Street. Pastor, Rev. 
Ralph B. Urmy, D.D.; Assistant Pastor, Rev. Henry L. Lambdin. 

Central — 227 Market Street. Pastor, Rev. Harry Y. Murkland. 

DeGroot — Littleton and South Orange Avenues. Pastor, Rev. L. C. 
Muller, D.D. 

Eighth Avenue — 76 Eighth Avenue. Pastor, Rev. A. Boylan Fitzgerald, 
D.D. 

Emanuel (German) — Clinton Avenue, corner Hedden Terrace. Pastor, 
Rev. John Mueller. 



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Franklin Street — 19 Franklin Street. Pastor, Rev. John O. Winner. 

Grace — Corner Ann Street and New York Avenue. Pastor, Rev. William 
H. Evans. 

Halsey Street — 75 Halsey Street. Pastor, Rev. James Clayton Howard. 

Montgomery Street — Montgomery Street, corner Barclay. Pastorate 
vacant. 

Roseville — 527 Orange Street. Pastor, Rev. Dorr Frank Diefendorf. 

St. John's — 107 Academy Street. Pastor, Rev. John E. A. Johns. 

St. Luke's — 144! Clinton Avenue. Pastor, Rev. James H. MacDonald. 

St. Paul's — 981 Broad vStreet. Pastor, Rev. G. P. Dougherty; Assistant 
Pastor, Rev. J. E. Custer. 

Summerfield — Summer Avenue and Heller Parkway. Pastor, Rev. O. M. 
West. 

Trinity — 230 Warren Street. Pastor, Rev. T. I. Hanson. 

Union Street — Union, corner Green Streets. Pastor, Rev. Irving C. 
Starr. 

Vailsburg— Richelieu Terrace, corner Fortuna Street. Pastor, Rev. H. 
Eugene Curts, Ph.D. 



Methodist Protestant 

First — Corner Clinton and Treacy Avenues. Pastor, Rev. Eugene C. 
Makosky; Assistant Pastor, Rev. Joseph A. Weigand. 



African Methodist Episcopal 

Zion — 98 Pennington Street. Pastor, Rev. J. E. Rodgers. 
Bethel — Hi Morton Street. Pastor, Rev. Abram L. Hughes. 
St. James' — 90 Union Street. Pastor, Rev. H. K. Spearman. 
St. Luke's — 156 Baldwin. Pastor, Rev. George W. Brent. 



Presbyterian 

Bethany — Spruce, corner Charlton Street. Pastor, Rev. Albert N. 
Stubblebine. 

Bethany African Mission — Corner Spruce and Charlton Streets. Pastor, 
Rev. O. M. Bonfield. 

Calvary — 8C Pennsylvania Avenue. Pastor, Rev. W. P. Lemon. 

Central — Clinton, Belmont and Madison Avenues. Pastor, Rev. George 
Walton King, D.D. 

Clinton Avenue — Clinton Avenue and South IGth Street. Pastor, Rev. 
Joseph F. Folsom. 

East Side Halian — 240 Jefferson Street. Pastor, Rev. Peter Di Nardo. 

Elizabeth Avenue — Elizabeth and Wilbur Avenues. Pastor, Rev. Dean 
N. Dobson. 

Fewsmith Memorial — 36 Hudson Street. Pastor, Rev. George H. Broen- 
ing. 



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Fifth Avenue — Park Avenue, corner JRoseville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. 
Joseph Hunter. 

First — 820 Broad Street. Pastor, Rev. W. J. Dawson, D.D.; Assistant 
Pastor, Rev. Fred. L. Hall. 

First Tabernacle — Corner Lafayette and Tyler Streets. Pastor, Rev. 
Andrew H. Neilly. 

First German — 35-41 Morton Street. Pastor, Rev. Herbert H. Peters. 

First Ruthenian of St. Peter and St. Paul — 49 Beacon Street. Pastor, 
Rev. Basil Kusiw. 

Forest Hill — Highland Avenue, corner Heller Parkway. Pastor, Rev. 
Frederick W. Lewis. 

German Emanuel — 236 Verona Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Herman H. 
Hoops. 

High Street — High, corner Court Street. Pastor, Rev. John J. Moment. 

Kilburn Memorial — South Orange Avenue, corner Norwood Street. Pas- 
tor, Rev. Smitli Ordway. 

Memorial — .310 South Orange Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Andrew S. Zimmer- 
man. 

Olivet (Italian) — Branch of First Presbyterian, 14th Avenue, corner Hun- 
terdon Street. Pastor, Rev. Bismark J. Coltorti. 

Park — 208 Belleville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Charles L. Reynolds. 

Roseville — 44 Roseville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. William Y. Chapman, 
D.D. 

Second Church — 25 Washington Street. Pastor, Rev. Pleasant Hunter, 
D.D.; Assistant Pastor, Rev. Howard Adair. 

Second German — 106—110 Sussex Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Fred W. Hock, 
D.D. 

Sixth — Lafayette and Union Streets. Pastor, Rev. Robert R. LittoU. 

South Park — 1035 Broad Street. Pastor, Rev. Lyman W^hitney Allen, 
D.D. 

South Park Memorial Chapel — South Street, corner Dawson, Pastor, 
Rev. Lyman Whitney Allen, D.D. 

Third North — Corner Abington and Ridge Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Robert 
Scott Inglis, D.D. 

Third German — Hamburg Place, corner Ann Street. Pastor, Rev. Julius 
H. Wolff, D.D. 

Thirteenth Avenue — 46 Boston. Pastor, Rev. E. F. Eggleston, D.D. 
i- Weequahic — Corner Meeker and Peshine Avenues. Pastor, Rev. Sher- 
man H. Marey. 

West — Corner Littleton and Eleventh Avenues. Pastor, Rev. Harold C. 
Harmon. 

Hill Temple Chapel — Avon Avenue, corner S. 16th Street. Superin- 
tendent, William Turner. 

Park Church Chapel — Highland Avenue above Bloomfield Avenue. 
Pastor, Rev. E. R. Barnard. 

Hungarian — 243 W. Kinney Street. Assistant Pastor, T. Frank Kovacs. 



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Reformed (Dutch) 

Christ — Washington and Dehaware Avenues. Pastor, Rev. Percival H. 
Barker. 

Clinton Avenue — 25 Clinton Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Albertus T. Broek. 

First Italian Mission — 19 Sixth Avenue. Minister in Charge, Rev. D. 
N. Febrile. 

First — Clinton Avenue, corner Johnson Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Otis M. 
Trousdale. 

New York Avenue — New York Avenue, corner Pacific Street. Pastor, 
Rev. Edwin Emerson Davis. 

North — 510 Broad Street. Pastor, Rev. Charles H. Stewart, D.D. 

Trinity — 479 Ferry Street. Pastor, Rev. Charles B. Condit. 

West Newark (German) — 31 Blum Street. Pastor, Rev. Carl Girtanner. 



Reformed Episcopal 

Emmanuel — Broad Street, corner Fourth Avenue. Rector, Rev. Robert 
W. Peach, D.D. 



Roman Catholic 

Blessed Sacrament — Clinton Avenue, corner Van Ness Place. Pastor, 
Rev. Frederick C. O'Neill. 

Sacred Heart — Park Avenue, corner Ridge Street. Pastor, Rev. James 
J. Sheehan. 

St. Rose of Lima — Corner Warren and Gray Streets. Pastor, Rev. James 
J. McKeever; Assistants Rev. Thomas J. Martin, Rev. Daniel H. Hogan. 

Holy Trinity (Lithuanian) — 207 Adams Street. Pastor, Rev. Joseph 
V. Dobuzinskas. 

Our Lady of Gooff Counsel — 648 Summer Avenue. Pastor, Rev. W. J. 
Richmond; Assistant, Rev. John J. Butscher. 

Our Lady of Mt. Carmel (Italian) — McWhorter, corner Ferry Streets. 
Pastor, Rev. Ernest D'Aquila. 

Our Lady of the Holy Rosary (Italian) — 181 Emmet. Pastor, Rev. 
Ernest A. D'Aquail. 

Sacred Heart — South Orange Avenue corner Sandford Avenue, Vails- 
burg. Rector, Rev. Henry G. Coyne; Assistant, Rev. George J. Buttner. 

St. Aloysius — 66 Bowery Street. Pastor, Rev. John J. Preston. 

St. .\nn's (German) — 380 South 7th Street. Rector, Rev. Theodore 
Peters. Assistant, Rev. Joseph Schwaller. 

St. Antoninus' — 337 South Orange Avenue. Prior and Pastor, Very Rev. 
J. R. Ilefferman, O. P.; Sub-Prior, Very Rev. W. J. O'Leary, O. P. 

St. Augustine's (German) — 57 Norfolk Street. Pastor, Rev. Rudolph 
Huelsebusch. 

St. Benedict's (German) — Barbara corner Niagara Street. Rector, 
Rev. Bernard Gerstl, O.S.B. 

St. Bridget's — ^406 Plane Street. Rector, Rev. Samuel B. Hedges, L.L.D. 

St. Casimir's (Polish) — 164 Nichols Street .Pastor, Rev. Paul Knappek. 



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St. Charles Horromeo — Posliine Avenue, corner Custer Avenue. Rev. 
Thomas A. Walsh, Rector. 

St. Colomba's — 25 Thomas Street. Pastor, Rev. M. J. White; Assistant, 
Rev. John J. Maxwell. 

St. James' — 250 Lafayette Street. Pastor, Rev. Patrick Cody. 

St. John's — 22 Mulberry Street. Pastor, Rev. Michael P. Corcoran. 

St. John the Baptist (Ruthenian Greek) — 249 Court. Pastor, Rev. 
Peter Poniatishin. 

St. Joseph's — Cabinet and Wallace Place. Rector, Very Rev. Charles A. 
Smith, M. R.; Assistants, Rev. Edward F. Quirk; Rev. Andrew L. Clark; 
Rev. Micahel J. Corr. 

St. Lucy's (Italian) — 19 Sheffield Street. Rector, Rev. Joseph Perotti. 

St. Mary Magdalene's — 27 Esther Street. Pastor, Rev. Thomas E. O'Shea. 

St. Mary's (German) — 530 High Street. Abbot, Rt. Rev. Ernest Helm- 
stetter. Pastor, Rev. Polycarp Scherer; Assistant, Rev. Benedict Flum. 

St. Michael's — 182 Belleville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Felix M. O'Neill; 
Assistants, Rev. Justin W. Corcoran, Rev. Serafino Donzell. 

St. Francis Xavier's — North 7th Street and Abington Avenue. Pastor 
Rev. Camillus D. Loponte. 

St. Patrick's Cathedral — 91 Washington Street. Rector, Rt. Rev. Isaac 
P. Whelan; Assistants, Rev. William P. Brennan, Rev. John E. Kiernan, 
Rev. John A. Dillon. 

St. Peter's (German) — 44 Belmont Avenue. Rector, Rt. Rev. Monsignor 
A. Stecher, M. R.; x\ssistants. Rev. Matthias Thimmes, Rev. Michael A. 
Mechler. 

St. Philip Neri's — 12 Court House Place. Rector, Rev. Joseph Transerici; 
Assistant, Rev. Henry Gerlen. 

St. Rocco's — 9 Bedford Street. Rector, Rev. Vincenzo Sansone; Assist- 
ant, Rev. Guilio Triolo. 

St. Stanislaus' (Polish) — 144 Belmont A\enue. Pastor, Rev. Francis 
Rolinski; Assistant, Rev. Joseph Olszemski. 

St. Stephen's (Slavonic) — 223 Bruce Street. Pastor, Rev. Charles 
Weisser. 



Seventh Day Adventist 

First — Grain near Grove Street. Pastor, Rev. John (). Miller. 
First Bohemian-Slavish — 278 New York Avenue. Pastor, Rev. Paul 
Matula, Irvington. 



United Presbyterian 

First — 124 Belleville Avenue. Pastor, Rev. I. McGay Knipe. 



Universalist 

Church of the Redeemer — Broad and Hill Streets. Pastor, Rev. Henry 
R. Rose, D.D, 



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Undenominational 

Church of God — Meets (2) Newark Arcade. Elder, James Brown; 
Deacon, John Moreland. 

Gospel Tabernacle— 91 N. 9th Street. Pastor, Rev. William W. New- 
berry. 

People's Temple — 911 Broad Street. Superintendent, Pattie Watkins 
Lindsay. 

Waverly Park Union Sunday School — Dayton Street. Superintendent, 
Samuel W. Johnson. 



PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS 

National Security League (Inc.) 
Newark Branch, Third Floor Kinney Building 

Chairman — Franklin Murphy. 

Vice-Chairman, Thomas L. Raymond. 

Secretary — John O. Bigelow. 

Treasurer — William C. Krueger. 

Field Secretary and Publicity Manager — -George D. Love. 

Executive Committee — Christian W. Feigenspan, Chairman; Henry G. 
Atha, William T. Carter, Jr., Alexander Archibald, Frankland Briggs, C. 
Albert Gasser, Gayle L. Young, Charles Bradley, Joseph M. Byrne, Henry P. 
Fry. 

Finance Committee — Joseph M. Riker, Chairman; Samuel E. Robertson, 
M.D., Clark Symington, William B. Kinney, John W. Miller, Louis Hood, 
Harrison Higbie, Frederick M. Paul, M.D., Richard C. Jenkinson. 




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Publicity Committee — Chester R. Hoag, Cluiirman; Roger Young, 
George W. C. McCarter, William S. Hunt, Augustus V. Hamburg, Cortlandt 
Parker, Arthur H. MacKie, Arthur M. Crane, Fred G. Stickel, Jr. 

Membership Committee — R. Arthur Heller, Chairman; Edward E. Gnich- 
tel, Thomas Goldingay, Henry F. Hilfers, John H. Donnelly, Harold Dennis, 
Rabbi Solomon Foster, W. Alexander Williamson. Jacob L. Newman. 

Committee on Military Education — C. Albert Gasser. 



Grand Army of the Republic 

Phil Kearny Post No. 1 — Saturday afternoon at 82 Belleville Avenue. 

James A. Garfield Post, No. 4— Saturday at 248 Market Street. 

Lincoln Post, No. 11— Saturday 3 P. M. at 838 Broad Street. 

Hexamer Post, No. 34 — First Saturday afternoon at 1 Springfield Avenue. 

Issac M. Tucker Post, No. G5— First Friday at 314 Market Street. 




Benedict Prieth 





Cha-s. W. Littlefield William I. Cooper 

Members of Executive and Finance Committee 



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Oui- of the J.uiigs uf Newark 



Marcus L. Ward Post, No. 88 — First and tliird Thursday evenings at 82 
Belleville Avenue. 

Phil Sheridan Post, No. 110— Thursday at 314 Market Street. 

Kearny Circle, No. 1, Ladies of the G. A. R. First and third Tuesdays at 
82 Belleville Avenue. 

Phil Sheridan Circle, No. C. First and third Monday evenings at 320 
Market Street. 

I. M. Tucker Circle, No. 17 — Second and fourth Fridays at 20 Scott Street. 

Battery B Circle — Second and fourth Fridays at Marcus L. Ward Post 
Rooms, Belleville Avenue. 



Eighth Regiment N. J. Volunteers Veteran Association (Hooker's 

Old Guard) 

President, Lieutenant John J. Ferine; Secretary and Treasurer, William 
R. Tunison. 



Newark Veteran Organization of the 20th Regiment of N. Y. Volunteers 

Meets in Turn Hall, 184 William Street, June 17, September 17. 



39th Regiment Veteran Association 

President, Alonzo P. Lenox. 



Army and Navy Union 
Garrison No. 83 — Meets fourth Thursday at 194 Market Street. 



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United Spanish War Veterans 

Department Headquarters, Department of New Jersey, P. O. Box 20. 
Commander, Earl T. Dabb. 

Captain D. D. Mitchell Camp, No. 13— Meets first Tuesday at Adelphia 
Building, Market Street. 

Foreign Service Camp, No. 26 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 194 
Market Street. 

U. S. S. Badger Naval Camp — l^-i Market Street. 

Mitchell Auxiliary, No. 3 — Meets second Thursday at 194 Market Street. 



American Veterans of Foreign Service 

Charles Cushing Post, No. 13 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 
320 Market Street. 



German Veterans, Post No. 70 

Meets second Sunday at 529 Springfield Avenue. 



Sons of Veterans 

Marcus L. Ward Camp, No. 18 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 
82 Belleville Avenue. 



Daughters of the American Revolution 

Nova Caesarea Chapter — Meets first and third Friday from October to 
May. Regent, Mrs. Henry D. Fitts. 



New Jersey Society Sons of the American Revolution 

Office 756 Broad Street. President, W. I. Lincoln Adams. 



CLUBS 

Essex Club — 44 Park Place. 

Union Club — 46 Bank Street. 

Down Town Club — ^Kinney Building, Market, corner Broad Street. 

Progress Club — 9 West Park Street. 

Lawyers' Club of Essex County— (Room 1,100) 763 Broad Street. 

Clinton Club — 514 Clinton Avenue. 

North End Club — Broad Street and Third Avenue. 

Celtic Club — 776 Broad Street. 

West End Club— 258 South Seventh Street. 

Rotary Club of Newark — Meets second Tuesday, except July and August, 
at Achtel-Stetters' Restaurant. 

Newark Camera Club — 59 Mechanic Street. 

Essex Camera Club — Meets fourth Tuesday at 872 Broad Street. 

Association of Exempt Firemen of the City of Newark — Regular meetings 
last Wednesday at 39-41 Centre Street. 

Newark Stamp Club — Meets first, third and fifth Fridays at 494 Broad 
Street. 



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St. Andrew's (Scottish) Society of New Jersey — Meets second Friday 
at 842 Broad Street. 

Newark Caledonian Club — Meets first Wednesday at 48 William Street. 

Newark Rice Chess Club — 184 William Street. 

United Commercial Travelers of America, Essex Council, No. 317 — Meets 
at 401 Plane Street. 

Newark Advertising Men's Club — 11 Clinton Street. 

Woman Suffrage Organizations 

Women's Political Union of New Jersey — Headquarters 79 Halsey Street. 
Meets first Monday of each month. 

Congressional Union for Women Suffrage — 17 West Park Street. 

Athletic and Sporting Clubs 

New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club — 22 W'ashington Place. 

New Jersey Motorcycle Club — Meets every Tuesday at 847 Broad Street. 

Highland Motor Club — Meets last Wednesday at 219 Belmont Avenue. 

Newark Motor and Yacht Club — Foot of Chester Avenue. 

Passaic River Yacht Club — Club House at Harrison. 

Eureka Yacht Club — Hackensack River and Lincoln Highway. 

Institute Boat Club — Meets second Tuesday at 76 New Street. 

Triton Boat Club — President, Theodore F. Keer. 

Passaic Boat Club — Riverside Avenue. 

vSeneca Canoe Club— 259 N. 5th Street. 

Neptune Canoe Club — Meets first and third Fridays at Rowen court and 
Watson Avenue. 

Wyona Canoe Club — 19 West Park Street and Weequahic Park boat house. 

Anthony R. Boat Club — Meets every Wednesday at R. Madlinger Cafe, 
Lincoln Highway. 

Bay View Wheelman Club— 380 S. 16th Street. 




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Tuscorora Canoe Club — Meets first and third Tuesdays at Achtel-Stetter's, 
845 Broad Street. 

Smith Gun Club — Meets first Monday at Park Avenue, corner Stone Street. 

Riverside Rod and Gun Club — Meets first Tuesday at 794 South 15th 
Street. 

Red, White and Blue Fi.shing Club— Meets first Saturday at 364 15th 
Avenue. 

Anj^ler Camping Club, Inc. — Meets first and third Thursdays at 85 
Devine Street. 

Argus Camping Association — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 362 
S. Orange Avenue. 

Mountain Ridge Country Club- — Meets first Tuesday at 9 Clinton Street. 

Newark Turn Verein — Meets first and third Thursdays at 182 William 
Street. 



FRATERNAL, BENEVOLENT, AND PROTECTIVE ORDERS 
Ancient Order of Hibernians 

Division No. 1— Meets third Wednesday at G. A. R. Hall 320 Market St- 

Division No. 4 — ^Meets first Wednesday at St. Aloysius Hall. 

Division No. 7 — Meets first Wednesday at T. A. B. Hall, 149 Hudson 
Street. 

Division No. 13 — Meets second Wednesday at T. A. B. Hall, 149 Hudson 
Street. 



Ancient Order of United Workmen 

Success Lodge, No. 11 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at 194 Market 
Street. 

Newark Lodge, No. 31 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 838 
Broad Street. 

East Side Lodge, No. 32 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at Ilauesler's 
Hall, 207 Ferry Street. 

Memorial Lodge, No. 63 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 838 Broad 
Street. 



Benevolent Protective Order of Elks 

Newark Lodge, No. 21 — Meets every Tuesday at 39 Green Street. 

Brotherhood of America 

Col. Emil Frey Circle, No. 36 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 9i 
Belmont Avenue. 



Catholic Benevolent Legions 

Bailey Council, No. 29^Meets first and third Mondays at Hayes Hall, 
85 Central Avenue. 

St. James Council, No. 39 — Meets alternate Thursdays at Madison, corner 
Elm Streets, 



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St. Aloysius Counril, No. 46 — Meets alternate Mondays at 38 Oxford St. 

St. Rupert's Council, No. 52 — Meets second Sunday at 147 William Street. 

Very Rev. Patrick Moran Council, No. 57— Meets alternate Mondays at 
16 Mulberry Street. 

St. Aiden Council, No. 61 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 172 
Belleville Avenue. 

Father Dalton Council, No. 62 — Meets second Thursday corner Hudson 
and Hartford vStreets. 

St. Colombia's Council, No. 69— Meets at -104 Plane Street. 

Eagle Council, No. 116 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at Bank corner 
Rutgers Streets. 

St. Gottfried's Council, No. 113 — Meets every other Monday at 324 Spring- 
field Avenue. 

Christian Charity Council — Meets first Wednesday at 59 Norfolk Street. 

Arminius Council No. 406 — Meets alternate Thursdays at St. Ann's 
Hall, South 7th Street, corner 16th Avenue. 

Roseville Council, No. 408 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 12 
South 11th Street. 

St. Brendan Council, No. 446 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 
Clifton and Park Avenues. 

St. Leonard's Council, No. 448 — Meets alternate Mondays at Niagara, 
corner Komorn Street. 



Daughters of America 

Good Intent Council, No. 19 — Meets second and fourth PVidays at 248 
Market Street. 

Star of Monroe Council, No. 30 — Meets every Thursday evening at 
605 Broad Street. 

Old Glory Council, No. 46 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 194 
Market Street. 

Star of Runyori Council, No. 54 — Meets second and foiuth Fridays at 248 
Market Street. 

Star of Marcus L. Ward Council, No. 62 — Meets first and third Fridays at 
103 Market Street. 

Star of Equal Rights Council, No. 68 — Meets first, third and fifth Fridays 
at 194 Market Street. 



Daughters of Isabella 

Court Seton, No. 72 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at Columbus In- 
stitute, 76 New Street. 



Daughters of Scotia 

Bonnie Doon Lodge, No. 10 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 
262 Washington Street. 



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Daughters of St. George 

Lady Roberts Lodge — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays in New 
Auditorium, 81 Orange Street. 

Victoria Lodge — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 248 Market Street. 



Daughters of Liberty 

Pride of Juniors Council, No. 23 — Meets first and third Fridays at 82 
Belleville Avenue. 

Ingomar Council — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 260 Washington 
Street. 

Roseville Council, No. 24 — Meets first and third Mondays at Jr. O. U. 
A. M. Hall, Orange, corner N. 6th Streets. 

Pride of General Putnam Council, No. 31 — Meets first, third and fifth 
Fridays at 432 Plane Street. 

Pride of Essex Council, No. 33 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 
466 Orange Street. 

Pride of Daniel Webster Council, No. 34 — Meets first and third Thursdays 
at 82 Belleville Avenue. 

Pride of East End Council, No 43 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 
at 248 Market St. 

Pride of General Custer Council, No. 55 — Meets second and fourth Tues- 
days at 262 Washington Street. 

Pride of Peter Cooper Council, No. 74 — Meets second and fourth Tues- 
days at 68 Springfield Avenue. 

Pride of William Weaker Phelps Council No. 78 — Meets second and fourth 
Wednesdays at 84 Belleville Avenue. 

Pride of Marcus L. Ward Council, No. 79 — Meets second and fourth Tues- 
days at 158 Market Street. 

Goodwill Council, No. 102 — Meets first and third Mondays at 248 Mar- 
ket Street. 

Equity Council, No. 112 — Meets second and fourth Saturdays at 248 
Market Street. 

Pride of Vailsburgh Council, No. 134 — Meets first and third Fridays at 
890 South Orange Avenue. 

Pride of General Sedgwick Council, No. 159 — ^Meets first and third Wed- 
nesdays at 13 16th Avenue. 

IvaTihoe Council No. 192 — Meets second and fourth Fridays in Adelphia 
Hall, 244 Market Street. 

Evening Star Council, No. 185 — Meets first and third Fridays at 68 
Springfield Avenue. 

Pride of Newark, No. 186 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at 81 Orange 
Street. 

Pride of A. J. Smith Coun:;il, No. 193 — Meets second and fourth Mondays 



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Foresters of America 

Court Newark, No. 14 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 161-163 
Springfield Avenue. 

Court Victory, No. 76 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at Eagles Hall, 
198 Springfield Avenue. 

Court Montifiore, No. 92 — Meets first and third Mondays at Eagles Hall, 
196 Springfield Avenue. * 

Court Giuseppe Verdi, No. 114 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 120 
Bank Street. 




Poster Design by Helen Dryden 



Garibaldi Court, No. 137 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 39 Ferry 
Street. 

Court Clover Ionian, No. 158 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 
]96 Springfield Avenue. 



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Newark Circle, No. 71, Companions of the Forest of America — Meets first 
and third Wednesdays at New Union Hall, Broome Street, corner Springfield 
Avenue. 



Fraternal Order of Eagles 

Newark Aerie, No. 44 — Meets every Tuesday at 28-30 East Park Street. 
Aerie No. 1987— Meets second and fourth Mondays at 196-198 Springfield 
.\ venue. 

Improved Order of Heptasophs 

Unity Conclave, No. 189 — ^Meets second and fourth Fridays at Eagles 
Hall, Park Street. 

Newark City Conclave, No. 247 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 
840 Broad Street. 

Roseville Conclave, No. 251 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 507 
Orange Street. 

Essex Conclave, No. 265 — Meets first and third Mondays at 82 Belleville 
Avenue. 

Hep Star Conclave, No. 270 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at 128 Mul- 
berry Street. 

Frelinghuysen Conclave, No. 361 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 
762 Broad Street. 

Die Eiche Conclave, No. 460 — Meets first and third Mondays at Sixteenth 
Avenue, corner Hunterdon Street. 

North End Conclave, No. 720 — Meets first and third Tuesdays at 474 
Broad Street. 

Vailshurg Conclave, No. 763 — ^Meets second, and fourth Mondays at 
890 South Orange Avenue. 

Branch Brook Conclave, No. 784 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays 
at Reliable Hall, 261 Orange Street. 



Improved Order of Redmen 

Watchung Tribe, No. 110 — Meets first and third Fridays at 326 Bank 
Street. 

Weequahic Tribe, No. 270 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 128 
Mulberry Street. 

Weptonomah Council, D. of P., No. 16 — Meets second and fourth Mondays 
at 83 Orange Street. 



Independent Order of B'nai B'rith 

Tabor Lodge, No. 31 — Meets second Sunday at 86 Seymour Avenue. 

Ezekiel Lodge, No. 90 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 401 
Plane Street. 

Newark City Lodge, No. 201 — Meets second and fourth Sunday morn- 
ings at 232 Mulberry Street. 



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Independent Order of B'rith Arbaham 

Gerechtigkeit Lodge, No. 25 — Meets alternate Tuesdays at 224 Court 
Street. 

Baron Rothschild Lodge, No. 105 — Meets alternate Wednesdays at 224 
Court Street. 

Newark City Lodge, No. 109 — Meets alternate Wednesdays at 224 Court 
Street. 

Admiral Sampson Lodge, No. 192 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 
103 Montgomery Street. 




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Independent Order of Foresters 

Court Progressive, No. 254 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 
20 Central Avenue. 

Court Jersey, No. 999 — Meets first and tliird Tuesday's at 20 Central 
Avenue. 

Court South End, No. 1562 — Meets first, third and fifth Tuesday evenings 
at 70 Springfield Avenue. 

Court Newark, No. 1592 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at Foresters 
Home, 20 Central Avenue. 

Court Frelinghuysen, No. 1698 — Meets first and third Fridays at 84 
Belleville Avenue. 

Court Passaic, No. 3024 — Meets first and third Fridays at 207 Ferry Street. 

Court Seth Boyden, No. 3319 — Meets first and third Mondays at 20 
Central Avenue. 

Court Roseville, No. 3486 — Meets fourth Tuesday corner Hudson and 
Hartford Streets. 

Court George A. Halsey, No. 3689 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 
605 Broad Street. 

Court Stratford, No. 2949 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at I. O. O. F. 
Hall, 13 16th Avenue. 

Court Woodside, No. 3957 — Meets first and fourth Fridays at 356 Belle- 
ville Avenue. 

Court Thomas Dunn English, No. 4058 — Meets first and third Tuesdays 
at Mahaff'eys Hall, Ferry, corner McWhorter Streets. 

Court Gen. Runyon, No. 4210 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 
I. O. O. F. Home 20 Central Avenue. 

Court Jersey Blue, No. 4250 — Meets fourth Thursday at Foresters Hall, 20 
Central Avenue. 

Court Branch Brook, No. 4290 — Meets first and third Thursdays, corner 
Hudson and Hartford Streets. 

Court Vailsljurg, No. 4455 — Meets first and third Mondays at 890 South 
Orange Avenue, Vailsburg. 

Court Clinton No. 4562 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 516 
Clinton Avenue. 

Court Royal Blue, No. 4565 — Meets first and third Fridays at 124 Market 
Street. 

Companion Court Newark, No. 558 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays 
at 844 Broad Street. 

Companion Court Anthony, No. 682 — Meets third Tuesday at 20 Central 
Avenue. 

Companion Court Independent, No. 710 — Meets, second Thursday at 
445 Broad Street. 



Independent Order Free Sons of Israel 

Newark Lodge, No. 41 — Meets tiiird Sunday at W. Kinney corner Prince 
Street. 

Independence Lodge, No. 68 — Meets third W^ednesday Broome, corner Mer- 
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Independent Order Free Sons of Judah 

Harris Gelbart Lodge, No. 18 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays in 
Columbia Hall, 224 Court Street. 



Independent Order of B'rith Scholom 

Nathan Eggert Lodge, No. Gl — Meets first and third Sundays at 105 Prince 
Street. 

Gumbiner Lodge No. 174 — ^Meets alternate Wednesdays at 107 Broome 
Street. President, Alex. Orlowitz; Secretary, A. P. Siesholtz; Treasurer, 
Adolph Lauter. 



Independent Order of Buffaloes 

Newark Lodge, No. 1 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 104 Branford 
Place. 




Lake auJ Boat Houses, Branch Brook Park 



Independent Order King Solomon 



King Solomon Lodge, No. 1 — Meets alternate Monday.s at New Union 
Hall, 161 Springfield Avenue. 

Moses Montefiore Lodge, No. 8 — Meets first and third Mondays at 9 
Belmont Avenue. 



Independent Order of True Sisters 

Hulda Lodge, No. 5 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at Temple 
Bnai^Jeshurun.^IIigh Street and Waverly Avenue. 



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Junior Order United American Mechanics 

George H. Adams Council, No. 36 — Meets every Monday at 432 Plane 
Street. 

Henry Clay Council, No. 95 — Meets every Monday at 262 Washington 
Street. 

General Custer Council, No. 130— Meets every Wednesday at 262 Wash- 
ington Street. 

General Putnam Council, No. 137 — Meets every Tuesday at Jr. O. U. A. 
M. Building, 432 Plane Street. 

Anthony Wayne Council, No. 159 — Meets every Thursday at Jr. O. U. A. 
M. Building, 432 Plane Street. 

Daniel Webster Council, No. 160 — Meets every Thursday at 82 Belleville 
Avenue. 

Essex Council, No. 161 — Meets every Thursday at Jr. O. U. A. M. Hall, 
Orange, corner N. Sixth Street. 

Newark Council, No. 166 — Meets every Wednesday evening at Jr. O. U. 
U. M. Hall, Orange corner N. Sixth Street. 

Eastern Star Council, No. 174 — Meets every Tuesday at 432 Plane Street. 

William Walter Phelps Council, No. 180— Meets every Tuesday at 365 
Belleville Avenue. 

Seth Boyden Council, No. 184 — Meets every Monday at 432 Plane Street- 

Colonial S. L. Buck Council, No. 187 — Meets every Wednesday at 815 
Summer Avenue. 

George A. Halsey Council, No. 192 — Meets every Friday at Orange, 
corner N. Sixth Streets. 

Peter Cooper Council, No. 196 — Meets every Monday at 70 Springfield 
.\ venue. 

East End Council, No. 201 — Meets every Thursday at 248 Market Street. 

Marcus L. Ward Council, No. 205 — Meets every Thursday at 432 Plane 
Street. 

General John A. Dix Council, No. 215 — Meets every Thursday at 432 
Plane Street. 

Monroe Council, No. 232 — Meets every Friday at 432 Plane Street. 

General Runyon Council, No. 233 — Meets every Tuesday evening 432 
Plane Street. 

Garret A. Hobart Council, No. 239 — Meets every Monday at 443 Broad 
Street. 

Prospect Council, No. 257 — Meets every Friday at 432 Plane Street. 

Vailsburg Council, No. 258 — Meets every Tuesday evening, at Union 
Hall, 890 S. Orange Avenue. 

Robert Fulton Council, No. 274 — Meets Tuesday evening at 432 Plane 
Street. 

Equal Rights Council, No. 282 — Meets every Monday at 194 Market 
Street. 

General H. W. Lawtan Council, No. 284 — Meets every Friday evening at 
17 West Park Street. 



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Old Ironsides Council, No. 298, Jr., O. U. A. M. — Meets first and third 
Mondays at 246 Market Street. 

Clinton Hill Council, No. 307— Meets first, third and fifth Tuesdays at 
516 Clinton Avenue. 

Uniformed Rank, 1st Regiment. — Meets every Saturday night at 103 
Market Street. 

Essex Funeral Benefit Association — Meets third Wednesday at .58 Arling- 
ton Avenue. 

Crescent No. 1 — Court of the Orient Order of Princes of the Orient — Meets 
second and fourth Thursdays, 432 Plane Street. 



Knights of Columbus 

Monsignor Doane Assembly, Fourth Degree — 76 New Street. 

Newark Council, No. 150 — Meets first and third Mondays at 878 Broad 
Street. 

Star of Bethlehem Council, No. 476 — Meets second and fourth Mondays 
at 76 New Street. 

Olive Branch Council, No. 463 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 
76 New Street. 

Daughters of Isabella, National Order, Court Seton, No. 72 — Meets 
first and third Tuesdays at 76 New Street. 



Knights of Malta 

Newark Commandery, No. 394 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 
Irving Hall, 474 Broad Street. 



Knights of Pythias 

St. Chryso.stoni Lodge, No. 3 — Meets every Friday at Jr. O. IJ. A. M. 
Hall, 432 Plane Street. 

Olympic Lodge, No. 9 — Meets fii-st and third Tuesdays at 261 Orange 
Street. 

Golden Leaf Lodge, No. 15 — Meets first and third Mondays at 88 Barclay 
Street. 

Granite Lodge, No. 21 — Meets every Tuesday at 13 IGth Avenue. 

St. Paul Lodge, No. 29 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 649 Broad 
Street. 

Covenant Lodge, No. 35 — Meets every Monday at 248 Market Street. 

Henry Clay Lodge, No. 45 — Meets every Tuesday at 443 Broad Street. 

Puritan Lodge, No. 94 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 53 Belleville 
Avenue. 

Roth Lodge, No. 117 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at Eagles 
Hall, 196 Springfield Avenue. 

Calanthe Co., No. 14, U. R.— Meets first and third Fridays at 55 Belleville 
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Knights and Ladies of Honor 

Friendship Lodge, No. 16 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 443 Broad 
Street. 

Newark Lodge, No. 83 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 11 16th 
Avenue. 

Martha Washington Lodge, No. 429 — Meets third Thursday at 866 
Springfiehl Avenue. 

Social-Americus, No. 572 — ^Meets first and third Wednesdays at 42 Atlantic 
Street. 

Eintracht Lodge, No. 896— Meets fourth Thursday at 287 Walnut Street. 




Tlio Norman Gutewiiy, Newark Castk', Newark-oa Trout 

Knights and Ladies of Security 

Newark Council, No. 2642— Meets first Thurschiy at 248 Market Street. 



Knights of the Maccabees 

Carteret Tent No. 3 — Meets first and thirtl Mondays at 222 Market Street. 



Ladies' Catholic Benevolent Associations 

St. Ann's Branch, No. 74 — Meets seconti ami fourth Tuoslays at 103 
16th Avenue. 

New Jersey Branch, No. 143 — Meets at 103 16th Avenue. 

Father Toomey Branch, No. 158 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 
T. A. B. Hall, Hudson and Hartford Streets. 

Doane Branch, No. 160 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at Colum- 
bus Institute, 76 New Street. 



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Father Flemming Branch, No. 164 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 
St. Aloysius Club House, Oxford Street. 

St. James' Branch, No. 165 — Meets first and third Mondays at St. James' 
Hall, corner Jefferson and Elm Streets. 

St. Benedict's Branch, No. 166 — Meets at St. Benedict's Hall, Komorn 
corner Niagara Street. 

St. John's Branch, No. 168 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 16 
Mulberry Street. 

St. Bridget's Branch, No. 195 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at St. 
Bridget's Hall, 406 Plane Street. 

Leonard Branch, No. 211 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at St. 
Michael's Hall, 178 Belleville Avenue. 

St. Colomba's Branch, No. 259 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 
St. Colomba's School Hall, Thomas Street. 

Father Brennan Branch, No. 321 — Meets at Park Avenue corner Ridge 
Street. 

Our Lady of Good Counsel, Branch No. 498— Meets in T. A. B. Hall, 
Hudson and Hartford Streets. 

Madonna Branch, No. 557 — Meets at St. Phillip's Hall, 14 Court House 
place. 

Victoria Branch, No. 984 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 648 
Summer Avenue. 

McCartie Branch, No. 1005 — Meets first and third Fridays at 84 Belleville 
Avenue. 

Blessed Sacrament Branch, No. 1007 — Meets every Monday at Catholic 
Institute, 76 New Avenue. 

New Jersey Advising Senate, L. C. B. A. — Meets fourth Monday at T. 
A. B. Hall, Hudson Street. 



Loyal Order of Moose 

Newark Lodge, No. 237 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 158 
Market Street. 



Masonic 

St. John's John's Lodge, No. 1 — Wednesday at 472 Broad Street. 

Newark Lodge, No. 7 — Friday at 645 Broad Street. 

Diogenes Lodge, No. 22 — Thursday night at 649 Broad Street. 

Northern Lodge, No. 25 — First, third and fifth Mondays at 472 Broad 
Street. 

Eureka Lodge, No. 39— Tuesday at 20 Hill Street. 

Oriental Lodge, No. 51 — Thursday at Roseville Masonic Temple. 

Kane Lodge, No. 53 — Friday at 20 Hill Street. 

Schiller Lodge, No. 66— Second and fourth Thursdays except July and 
August, at 649 Broad Street. 



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St. Albiins Lodge, No. C8 — Tuesday at 045 Broad Street. 

Concord Lodge, No. 94 — Second and fourth Wednesdays at Peter Cooper 

Hall, 68 Springfield Avenue. 

Marion Lodge No. 100 — First, third and fifth Wednesdays at 68 Spring- 
field Avenue. 

Cosmos Lodge, No. 100 — First, third and fifth Wednesdays at 645 Broad 
Street. 

Triluminar Lodge, No. 112, F. & A. M. — First, third and fifth Wednesdays, 
except July and August, at 63 Roseville Avenue. 

Alpha Lodge, No. 116^Second and fourth Wednesdays except July and 
August at 485 Broad Street. 

Pythagoras Lodge, No. 118 — First and third Fridays, except July and 
August, at 645 Broad Street. 

Germania Lodge, No. 128 — Second and fourth Wednesdays at 649 Broad 
Street. 

Roseville Lodge, No. 143 — First, third and fifth Mondays at Masonic 
Temple, 63 Roseville Avenue. 

Columbia Lodge, No. 176 — Thursday at 472 Broad Street. 

St. Cecile Lodge, No. 193— Thursday at 401 Plane Street. 

Union Chapter, No. 7, R. A. M. — Monday at 645 Broad Street. 

Harmony Chapter, No. 9, R. A. M. — Second and fourth Fridays at 472 
Broad Street. 

Kane Council, No. 2, R. & S. M.— First and third Thursdays at 20 Hill 
Street. 

Damascus Commandery, No. 5, K. T. — Second and fourth Thursdays 
except July and August, at Masonic Hall, 20 Hill Street. 

Past Masters' Association — President, Charles Hicks; Vice-President, 
Charles F. Engelstadter; Treasurer, J. Edward Blackmore; Secretary, 
Roscoe L. Strickland. 

Masonic Veterans of Newark, N. J. — Third Saturday of each month except 
July, August, September, at Masoni- Hall, 20 Hill Street. 



Masonic (Italian) 

GariliaUli Lodj^e No. 95 — Second and fourth Thursdays at 88 Springfield 
.\\enuc. 



Modern Woodmen of America. 

Newark City Camp, No. 7062 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 
128 Mulberry Street. 

North End Camp, No. 9094— Meets second and fourth Mondays at 128 
Mulberry Street. 

Lawton Caiup, No. 10,075— Meets second and fourth Fridays at 222 Mar- 
ket Street. 

Robin Hood Camp, No. 11,801 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 
G. A. i{. Hall, 838 Broad Street. 



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National Union 

General Rimyon, Council, No. 795 — Meets at 605 Broad Street. 

Nobles of the Mystic Shrine 

Salaam Temple— 207 Market Street. 

Odd Fellows 

Howard Lodge, No. 7 — Meets Wednesday at 222 Market Street. 
Newark Lodge, No. 8 — Meets Thursday at 842 Broad Street. 
Marion Lodge, No. 26 — Meets Friday at 401 Plane Street. 




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Protection Lodge, No. 28 — Meets every Monday at 3 Court Street. 

Atlas Lodge, No. 68 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 244 Market 
Street. 

Granite Lodge, No. 74 — Meets Monday at 645 Broad Street. 

Allemania Lodge, No. 79 (German) — Meets Wednesday at 69 Holland 
Street. 

Teutonia Lodge No. 118 — Meets first and third Wednesday at 11 16th 
Avenue. 

Gerniania Lodge, No. 121 — Meets Thursday at Odd Fellows' Hall, 16th 
Avenue. 

Eureka Lodge, No. 123 — Meets Friday at 443 Broad Street. 

Herman Lodge, No. 142 — Meets Tliursday at 322 Washington Street. 

Golden Rule Lodge, No. 153 — -Meets Monday at 11 16th Avenue. 

Trinity Lodge, No. 160 — -Meets Tuesday at Masonic Temple, 65 Roseville 
Avenue. 

Lucerne Lodge, No. 181 — Meets Tuesdays at 951 Broad Street. 

Radiant Star Lodge, No. 190 — Meets Tuesday at 472 Broad Street. 

North End Lodge, No. 227 — ^Meets Monday at 257 Washington Avenue. 



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Mt. Siaiii Loilgo, No. 272— Meets Tuesday at 13 16th Avenue. 

Galilei Lodge, No. 2Gi)— Meets Tuesday at 17 West Park Street. 

Mt. Ararat Encampment, No. 3— Meets first and third Fridays at 222 
Market Street. 

Newark Encampment, No. 17 — Meets second and fourth Wednesdays at 
13 16th Avenue. 

Jefferson Encampment, No. 2i — -Meets sepond and fourth Tuesdays at 
842 Broad Street. 

Mt. Horeh Encampment, No. 34 — -Meets first and third Fridays at 11-13 
16th Avenue. Scribe, Fred Wernicke. 

Canton Essex, No. 1 — Meets second Thursday at 842 Broad Street. 

Brilliant Star Rebekah Lodge, No. 8 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays 
at 84 Belleville Avenue. 

United German Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 40 — Meets second Friday at 
11 16th Avenue. 

Hope Rebekah Lodge, No. 42 — ^Meets first and third Tuesdays at 260 
Washington Street. 

Harmony Rebekah Degree Lodge, No. 44 — -Meets first and third Fridays 
at 593 Springfield Avenue. 

G. U. O. of O. F. 

Pride of Essex Lodge, No. 3490 — Meets first and third Mondays at 481 
Broad Street. Secretary James M. Miller. 

Order United American Mechanics 

General Sedgwick Council, No. 22 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 
432-434 Plane Street. 

Order of B'rith Abraham 

New Jersey Lodge, No. 38 — Meets alternate Sundays at 1 Broome Street. 

Union Lodge, No. 61 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at corner 
Broome and Mercer Streets. 

Essex County Lodge, No. 82 — Meets second and fourth Sundays at 107 
Broome Street. 

Jesse Seligman Lodge, No. 162 — Meets alternate Sundays at 224 Court 
Street. 

Newark City Lodge — Meets first and third Sundays at 80 Mercer Street. 

Newark Progressive Lodge No. 528 — Meets first and third Sundays at 
Union Hall, Springfield Avenue, corner Broome Street. 

O. D. H. S. 

William Tell Lodge, No. 4 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 127 
16th Avenue. 

Thusnelda, No. 1— Meets second and fourth Fridays at 8th Street and 
16th Avenue. 



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Hermine Lodge No. 2 — Meets first and third Fridays at Schwartz's Hall, 
16th Avenue and 8th Street. 

Herman Lodge, No. 15 — Meets second Wednesday at 18 Hensler Street. 

Old Germans No. 2 

Meets fourth Saturday at 105 Magazine Street. 

Order German Americans 

Newark Lodge, No. 13 — Meets first Monday corner Bergen Street and 
18th Avenue. 

Order of Orangemen 

True Blue Loyal Orange Lodge, No. 116 — Meets first and third Fridays 
at 605 Broad Street. 

Order of the Amaranth 

Newark Court, No. 9 — 222 Market Street. 

Harmony Cuort, No. 7 — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 649 Broad 

Street. 

Order of Eastern Star 

Radiant Chapter, No. 7 — Meets first and third Fridays at 472 Broad Street. 

Eintracht Chapter, No. 23. — Meets first and third Wednesdays at 401 
Plane Street. 

Golden Link Chapter, No. 31 — Meets first and third Mondays at 16 Hill 
Street. 

Harmony Chapter, No. 46, — Meets first and third Thursdays at 649 Broad 
Street. 

Roseville Chapter, No. 48 — ^Meets second and fourth Fridays in Roseville 
Masonic Temple, 63 Roseville Avenue. 

Aurora Chapter, No. 51 — -Meets second and fourth Wednesday in Lodge 
Room No. 1 Arcade Building, 645 Broad Street. 

Pleiades Chapter, No. 65 — Meets second and fourth Fridays at 20 Hill 
Street. 

Electra Chapter No. 68 — Meets first and third Mondays in Berkley Hall 
516 ClifntOn Avenue. 

Patriotic Order of Americans 

Camp No. 2— Meets first and third Wednesdays at 248 Market Street. 
Camp No. 32^Meets first and third Fridays at 248 Market Street. 



Patriotic Order Sons of America 

Washington Camp, No. 48 — Meets first and third Mondays at 607 Orange 
Street. 



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Royal Neighbors of America 

I-oo-tash Camp, No. 4902 — Meets second Thursday at 128 Mulberry 
Street. 

Royal Arcanum 

Newark City Council, No. 494 — Meets first and third Thursdays at 
Eagles Hall, 30 East Park Street. 

Corinthian Council, No. 644 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 20 
Hill Street. 

Roseville Council, No. 992 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 507 
Orange Street. 

Woodside Council, No. 1358 — Meets first and third Fridays at 356 Belle- 
ville Avenue. 

General Runyon Council, No. 1687 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays 
at 84 Belleveille Avenue. 

Alamo Council, No. 1749 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 207 
Ferry Street. 

Adamant Council, No. 2074 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 
Eagles Building. 

Royal Arcanum, Employment Bureau — Meets first Wednesday of Febru- 
ary, April, June, October and December at 445 Broad Street. 



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Shepherds of Bethlehem 

Guiding Star Lodge, No. 3 — Meets 6rst and third Mondays of each month 
at 84 Belleville Avenue. Commander, Jesse Carpenter; Scribe, Mrs. Sarah 
M. Fitzsimmons; Treasurer, Mrs. Anna Wilson. 

Twinkling Star Lodge, No. 18 — Meets first and third Wednesdays of each 
month at Mutual Bank Hall, 507 Orange Street. Commander, Mrs. Jennie 
Longstreet; Scribe, Frank E. Cake; Accountant, Mrs. S. E. Bamford. 

St. Patrick's Alliance of America 

Branch No. 8 — Meets fourth Thursday of each month corner Bank and 
Rutgers Street. President, Thomas Reynolds; Secretary, Thomas M. O'Neil; 
Financial Secretary, L. A. Downey; Treasurer, Joseph L. Gannon. 

Scottish Clan 

Clan Forbes, No. 52 — Meets first and third Fridays at 262 Washington 
Street. 

Sons of Italy 

Loggia Cavour — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 16 6th Avenue. 

Sheffield Lodge, No. 143 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 401 Plane 
Street. 

Birmingham Lodge, No. 494 — Meets second and fourth Mondays at 248 
Market Street. 

Tall Cedars of Lebanon 

Essex County Forest No. 8 — Office 31 Astor Street. Meets at call in 
Krueger Auditorium, Belmont Avenue. 

Tribe of Ben Hur 

Ben Lew Court, No. 5 — Meets fourth Mond-y at IG Mulberry Street. 

Woodmen of the World 

Roseville Camp, No. 22 — Meets second and fourth Tuesdays at 507 
Orange Street. 

Newark Camp No. 47 — Meets first and third Friday at 244 Market Street. 

Hill Camp, No. 54 — Meets second and fourth Thursdays at 708 S. 14t.i 
Street. 

Temperance Societies 

Star of Peace, No. 54, L O. G. T.— Meets every Wednesday at 194 Market 
Street. 

Young Men's Father Mathew T. A. B. Society — Meets secord Monday 
at Hartford, corner Hudson Streets, 



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Woman's Christian Temperance Union of Essex County — Meets every 
month except July and August at 128 Mulberry Street. 

Roseville Woman's Christian Temperance Union — Meets Sundays and 
6rst and third Fridays at 1 Humboldt Street. 

Woman's Christian Temperance Union — Meets at 128 Mulberry Street. 

Woman's Christian Temperance Union, No. 2 — Meets Sundays 4 p. m., 
and Fridays 8 p. m., at 43 Belleville Avenue. 

Woman's Christian Temperance Union, No. 3 — Meets second and fourth 
Wednesdays at 283 South 6th Street. 

Anti-Saloon League of New Jersey — Executive Committee meets monthly 
at 209 Market Street. 



ONE-DAY OUTINGS FROM NEWARK BY TROLLEY 

To Midland Beach — Elizabeth Line, Elizabeth port ferry to Staten 
Island and trolley to Midland Beach. Fare round trip 50 cents. Or, Newark 
Line, change at Grand Street, Jersey City, to Bayonne car, Bergen Point 
ferry to Port Richmond, trolley to Midland Beach. Fare round trip 40 cents. 

To South Beach — Same routes as to Midland Beach; fare round trip, 
either route, 40 cents. 

To Palisade Park, and New York via 130th Street ferry — Hackensack 
Line direct; fare round trip 60 cents. 

To Passaic Falls — Paterson Line, change at Main and Ellison Streets 
Singac car, or at Main and Broadway to Totowa car. Fare round trip 30 
oents. 

To Little Falls — Same as first named route to Passaic Falls; same fare. 

To Englewood, where buses run to Interstate Palisades Park and Dyck- 
man Street ferry for upper New York City — Hackensack Line, change at 
Leonia Junction; fare to Englewood, round trip, 60 cents. 



TROLLEY LINES 

Bergen — From Gotthart Street, via Chestnut, McWhorter, Johnson, 
Hermon, South, Broad, Thomas, Clinton Avenue, Bergen, First to Orange 
Street, returning via same route to Parkhurst Street to Broad, Thomas, 
Mulberry, South, Pacific, Chestnut to Gotthart. — Passes South Street depot, 
Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Bloomfield — P'rom Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, Centre, Park 
Place, Broad, Belleville Avenue, Bloomfield Avenue, to Caldwell loop, passing 
through Bloomfield, Glen Ridge, Montclair, Verona, Caldwell and Essex 
Fells. Return same route. Connects at Bloomfield Centre with Cross- 
town line for Eagle Rock cars or Orange. Connects at Valley Road, Mont- 
clair, for Upper Montclair. Bay Avenue cars operate from Broad Street 
via State and High Streets, Eighth and Summer Avenues to Bloomfield Ave- 
nue, thence to Broad Street and Bay Avenue, Bloomfield. Passes Tube 
station, Lackawanna depot, Newark, Lackwanna depot, Montclair, aod 
Erie depot, Caldwell, 



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Broad — From (ilendale loop, Nutley, via Wasliington and JJelleville 
Avenues, Broad Street and Clinton Avenue to Elmwood Avenue loop, Irving- 
ton. Passes through Belleville. Passes Erie depot. North Newark; Lacka- 
wanna and Central depots. 

Central — From Orange city line via Central Avenue, Park Place, Centre, 
Mulberry, Market, Ferry, McWhorter, Johnson, Hermon, South, Pacific, 
Elm, Union, Ferry Streets and return balance of route. Passes Tube Station, 
Market Street and South Street depots, Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Chapel — From Fleming Avenue via Chapel vStreet, Albert Avenue to 
Lockvvood Street. Return same rout?. 

Clifton — From Bloomfield Avenue, via Clifton Avenue, Norfolk and 
Jones Streets, Belmont and Avon Avenues, Bergen Street and Lyons Avenue 
to Elizabet'a Avenue. Return same route. 

Elizabeth — From Public Servi e Terminal via Mulberry, Lafayette, 
Croad, Miller Streets and Frelinghuysen Avenue to Elizabeth. Return same 
route. Connects at Elizabethport with ferry to Staten Island and cars for 

beich resorts. 

Eagle Rock — Connects with O-.ingi' line at West Orange and Crosstown 
line at Wasliington Streets, East O.-.mgc. 

Hackensack — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, Front, and 
Bridge Strcts to Harrison Avenue, Fourth Street and Kearny Avenue. Re- 
turn same route. Passes t'lrough Harrison, East Newark, Kearny, Arlington, 
North Arlington, Lyndhurst, Rutherford, Eist Rutherford, Carlstadt ,\Vood- 
ridge, H-^sbrouck Heig'.its, Hackensack. Connects at Hackensack for May- 
wood, Ri Igefield Park, Little Ferry, Leonia, Palisades Park, Edgewater 
(ferry to New York). Connects at Leonia for Englewood and Tenafly. 
Connects at Pal'sades Junction for Fo"t Lee and Coytesville. 

Harrison — From Bank Street via Broad and Bridge Streets, Harrison 
Avenue, Fourth Street and Kearny Avenue to Belleville turnpike. Return 
same route to Broad and Central Avenue to Washington, to Bank, to Broad 
vStreet. Passes through Harrison, East Newark, Kearny and Arlington. 

Jersey City — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, Front and 
Bridge Str ets, Harrison Avenue, Turnpike and private right of way to Newark 
Avenue, Jersey City, and thence to Exchange Place ferry to New York. Re- 
turn same route. 

Kearny — From Frelinghuysen Avenue via Vanderpool, Broad, Clay 
Streets, Carlisle Place, Central A^enue (East Newark), Fourth Street, Kearny 
Avenue, Midland Avenue and Elm Street to Arlington depot, Erie Rail -cad. 
Return same route. Passes through East Newark, Kearny, Arlington. 

Newark — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry and Market Streets, 
Fleming Avenue, Ferry Street and Lincoln Highway, to Jersey City, thence 
to Exchange Place ferry. Return same route. Passes Market Street depot, 
Pennsylvania Railroad. 

New Brunswick — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, La- 
fayette, Broad and Miller Street, to Frelinghviysen Av:;n-'.?, tT E!iT^')?t;i, 



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Bayway and private right of way of Fast Line. Return same route. Passes 
Linden, Metuchen, Highland Park. Connects at Roosevelt Junction for 
Roosevelt (Carteret and Chrome). 

Orange — From Market Street depot, Pennsylvania Railroad via Market 
Street, Breintnall Palace, Bank Street, Wallace Place, Warren and Main 
Streets to Harrison Street, West Orange. Return same route. Passes 
through East Orange, Orange, West Orange. Part of service operates from 
Public Service Terminal. 

Paterson — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, Front, Ogden 
Streets, Fourth, Belleville and Washington Avenues to Paterson. Return 
same route. Passes through Belleville, Nutley, Delawanna, Passaic, Clifton, 
Acquackanonk Township. 

Kinney — From Roseville depot via Fourteenth Street, Central Avenue 
South Twelfth Street, Twelfth Avenue, South Tenth Street, Eighteenth and 
Belmont .\venues. West Kinne}% Washington, Market, Ferry, McWhorter, 
Walnut, Van Buren, Warwick, Tyler, Elm, Pacific, Union, Market Streets 
and return balance of route. 

Market — From South Twentieth Street via Sixteenth Avenue, Bergen 
Street, Fifteenth and Springfield Avenues, Market Street, Fleming Avenue 
and Ferry Street to Plank Road shops. Return same route. Passes Market 
Street depot, Pennsylvania Railroad. 

Perth Amboy — From Public Service Terminal. Same route as New 
Brunswick line to Port Reading Junction, thence via Sewaren and Wood- 
bridge Township to Perth Amboy. Return same route. Connects at Roose- 
velt Junction for Roosevelt. (Carteret and Chrome.) 

Roseville — From Roseville carhouse via Orange and Broad Streets and 
Clinton Avenue to South Eighteenth Street. Return same route. Passes 
Lackawanna and Central stations. 

South Orange — From Ferry and Magazine Streets, via Magazine Streets, 
Avenue L, Hamburg Place, Ferry and Market Streets, Springfield and South 
Orange Avenues and Valley Street, South Orange to Millburn Avenue, Maple- 
wood Return same route. Passes Market Street depot, Pennsylvania Rail- 
road, and Lackawanna depot. South Orange. Part of service operates from 
Public Service Terminal. 

Springfield — From Ferry Street and Fleming Avenue via Ferry and Market 
Streets, Springfield and Millburn Avenues to Maplewood. Return same 
route. Part of service to Forty-third Street loop, Hilton; part operates from 
Public Service Terminal. Passes through Irvington and Hilton. Con- 
nects at Maplewood for Summit, Chatham, Madison, Morristown, Dover 
and Lake Hopatcong. 

Trenton — From Public Service Terminal via Mulberry, Lafayette, Broad, 
Miller Streets and Frelinghuysen Avenue to Elizabeth, Bayway and private 
right of way of East Line. Passes through Tremley, Woodbridge, Metuchen, 
New Brunswick, Milltown, Patrick's Corners, Dayton, Plainsboro, Grover's 
Mills. Dutch Neck, and Mercerville to Trenton. Return same route. 



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Union — From Public Service Terniinjil via Mulberry, Lafayette, Broad 
Streets, Clinton and Elizabeth Avenues to Hillside, Lyons Farms and North 
Broad Street, Elizabeth, thence through Elizabeth, Roselle, Cranford, Gar- 
wood, Westfield, Fanwood, Scotch Plains, Plainfield, Dunellen and Bound 
Brook. Return same route. Connects at Bound Brook for New Brunswick, 
Somerville, Raritan. 

Mount Prospect — From Forest Hill depot, Erie Railroad, via Lake 
Street, Verona, Mt. Prospect, Bloomfield and Belleville Avenues, Broad 
Street, Clinton and Elizabeth Avenues to Renner Avenue. Part of service 
to Lyons Farms. Return same route. Passes Lackawanna, Central, Lehigh 
Valley depots. 

Mulberry — From Wolcott Terrace via Hawthorne and Elizabeth venues. 
Miller Street, Pennsylvania Avenue, Parkhurst, Broad, Thomas, Mulberry, 
Front and Ogden Streets to Fourth Avenue depot, Erie Railroad. Return 
same route. Passes Tube station and Central depot. 




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NEWARK'S GREAT ATHLETIC EVENTS 

When the gates are thrown open at Weequahic Park for the National 
Amateur Athletic Union Track and Field Championships in September, 
Uncle Sam's great athletes will have at their disposal one of the fastest tracks 
and the best equipped athletic field in the country. 

The running track, which is expected by officials to be the fastest in the 
country was laid out by Frederick W. Rubien, secretary-treasurer of the 
A. A. U., and the construction has been under the supervision of Mr. Rubien 
and other officials of the Union, with W. H. ("Sparrow") Robertson, an in- 
ternational authority on athletic tracks and fields, in immediate charge of the 
work. As the meeting in September, which will bring together the best 
athletes in the country, will be the first to be held in the immediate vicinity 
of New York since the meet of 1908 at Travers Island, and as the people of 
Newark were anxious to have it the best ever held, neither effort nor expense 
has been spared to make the track the finest and fastest ever constructed. 




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New Track Records Expected 

Mr. Robertson believes this result has been achieved, and his opinion 
on such matters is generally accepted as athletic gospel. He said: "I 
thought the track I built for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at 
Cambridge in 1914 was the best ever constructed and the fastest I had ever 
seen. Now I am confident this Newark track will be faster by fractions of a 
second on the straightaway and by a full second on the full quarter- mile oval 



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course, and look for the creation of new world's records there if next year's 
atheletes improve relatively with their gradual improvement from year to 
year. As athletes improve somewhat faster than methods of construction 
of the tracks they run over, I have every reason for believing that we shall 
see such phenomenal performances on the new cinder path as will add credit 
to the 250th birthday celebration of Newark, in which athletic sports will be 
a conspicuous feature." 

Straightaway 24 Feet Wide 

Reasons for Mr. Robertson's belief that the track is athletically perfect 
are based on refinements of track construction which have been applied in the 
building of this one. Both the track itself and the straightaway are twenty- 
four feet wide through their whole extent, with a slight elevation on the two 
turns, reaching a maximum of a foot at the outer edge. This will give ample 
room for six hurdle lanes, two more than on the customary tracks. This 
grade on the turns is such as will enable an athlete to take them at the top 
of his speed if he so desires. 

The track is built on a uniform bed, with a slope of one inch in nine feet 
from either edge to the coarse rubble and cinder drain, six feet wide and about 
eight inches in depth at its exact centre. Above this is placed a six-inch bed 
of coarse cinders, topped by a bed two inches in thickness of three-fourths- 
inch mesh screened cinders — the top dressing of ordinary tracks. Above 
this is spread a final dressing of steam boiler cinders and clay, in equal parts, 
screened through a five-sixteenths-inch mesh, which Mr. Robertson says, is 
the finest pulverized top dressing ever used on a running track. This com- 
bination is expected to give unusual resiliency and that perfect "springiness" 
the athlete is always looking for. 

Champions and Past Performances 

The following are the noted athletes who are most likely to compete in 
Newark during the various championships, with their best performances 
in most instances: 

100 Yards Run 

J. Loomis, Chicago A. C, present National outdoor and 60 yards indoor 
champion. Record for 100, 9 4/5; for 60 yards 6 2/5. 

Howard Drew, I>os Angleles A. C, record 9 4/5 for 100 yards. 

Alvah T. Meyer, Irish A. C, who has record of 10 seconds. 

B. Brewer, St. Albans School, Washington, D. C, who is interscholastic 
100 yards champion. 

220 Yards Run 

Roy Morse, Salem Crescent A. C, present outdoor champion, record 
21 lib. 

H. L. Smith, Chicago A. A. 

R. E. McBride, Denver, Col., High School, has a record of 21 seconds for 
220 yards. 



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440 Yards Run 

J. E. Meredith, University of Penna., record 47 seconds. 

F. Sloman, Olympic Club Cal., record 47 seconds. 
B. Dismond, University of Chicago. 

880 Yards Run 

Le Roy Campbell, University of Chicago, present champion. Outdoor 
record 1—54 4/5. 

D. Caldwell, Boston A. C, record 1-53 2/0. 
Joseph T. Higgins, Holy Cross College, record 1-55. 

E. W. Ely, Chicago A. A., record 1-56. 

One Mile Run 

Joie Ray, Illinois A. C. Present champion, record 4-23 2/5. 
Michael Devaney, Milrose A. C. 
J. W. Overton, Yale University. 

Five Mile Run 

Hanes Kolehmainen, Irish A. C. His record 24 min. 29 1/5 seconds. 
O. Millard, Olympic Club, San Francisco, Cal. 

G. Hopgood, Multnomah A. C. of Portland, Ore. 

120 Yards Hurdle, Height 3 feet 6 inches 

Fred Murray, Olympic Club, California, record 15 seconds. 

F. W. Kelly, Los Angeles A. C, Los Angeles, Cal., 15 seconds. 
John EUer, I. A. A. C, New York, record 15 4/5. 

220 Yards Hurdle, Height 2 feet 6 inches. 

Fred Murray, present champion, record 23 3/5. 

J. Loomis, Chicago A. A. 

R. Simpson, University of Missouri. 

F. W. Kelly, Los Angeles. 

A. Engels, New York City. 

440 Yards Hurdle 

W. H. Meanix, Boston A. A., record 52 3/5 seconds. 
E. Lighter, Illinois A. C. 

A. F. Muenther, Olympic Club, San Francisco. 
W. F. Kelly, Prudential A. C, Newark, N. J. 

Putting 16-pound Shot 

A. Muchs, University of Wisconsin, record 48-11 3/4. 
L. J. Talbot, Kansas A. C, Kansas. 
R. J. Caughly, Olympic Club, San Francisco, Cal. 
Pat McDonald, Irish-American A. C, New York. 



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Running Broad Jump 

H. F. Worthing, Boston A. A., record 23 feet 10 inches. 
W. F. Simpson, Olympic Club, San Francisco, Cal. 
P. G. Stiles, University of Wisconsin. 

Running High Jump 

G. Horine, Olympic Club, San Francisco. 
' Wesley .01er,Ntw York A. C. 
A. Richards. Intcrmountain A. C. 

C. Larsen, Brigham Young University, Salt Lake City. 

Throwing 16-pound Hammer 
P. J. Ryan, Irish A. C. New York. 
J. M. McEachren, Caledonia Club, San Francisco. 
Mat McGrath, Irish American A. C. New York record, 187 feet I inches. 

Running Hop, Step and Jump 

Piatt Adams, New York A. C. 

D. J. Ahearn, Illinois A. C, record .50 feet 11 inches. 

F. J. Fahey, Irish American A. C, Chicago. 

Throwing Discus 

A. Muchs, University of Wisconsin, record 146 feet 9 1/4 inches. 

C. Bachman, Notre Dame University. 

James Duncan, Mohaw A. C, New York, record 156 feet 1 3/4 inches. 

Pole Vault for Height 

S. Bellah, Multnomah .\. C, Portland, Ore., record I'i feet 9 inches. 

E. Knourker, Illinois. 

C. Bergstrom, Los Angeles, A. C. 
S. Lander, Chicago A. C. 
Chick Curtis, New York A. C. 

Throwing 56-pound Weight 

L. J. Talbot, Kansas City A. C., record 3a feet 9 3/4 inches. 
J. J. Cahill, Milro.se A. C, New York. 
Mat McGrath, Irish American A. C. 

Throwing the Javelin 

G. A. Bronder, Irish American A. C, New York City, 177 feet 7 3/4 inches- 
H. B. Liversedge, Stanford University California, record 184 feet 1/2. 

inches. 

C. Fee, Multnomah A. C, Portland, Ore. 
J. C. Lincoln, New York A. C. 

Three Mile Walk 

Georgo Goulding, Canada. 
E. Reng, Mohaw A. C, New York. 
H. W. Fitzpatrick, New Orleans A. C. 
W. Pearman, Long Island A. C. 



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BASEBALL GAMES AT NEWARK 
Wiedenmayer's Park S. Orange Trolley E. -Bound 

Official Schedule of International League for 1916 

With Toronto: April 27, 28, 2!)t, ;}0j; June 19, 20, 21; August 18, IQf- 
20t. 

With Montreal: May Gf, 7t 8, 9; June 22, 23, 24t; August 8, 9, 10. 

With Buffalo: May 11, 12, ISf, UJ; June 25t 26, 27; August 14, 15, 16. 

With Rochester: May 1, 2, 3, 4; June 28, 29, 30; August 11, 12t, 13t 

With Baltimore: May 28 1 29, (30-30*); July 20, 21, 22t; September 
3t (4-4*). 

With Richmond: June 1, 2, Sf, 4t; July 23t, 24, 25; September 5, 6, 7. 

With Providence: June llj, 12, 13, 14; July If (2-2J); September 
8, 9t, lot- 

tSaturday. JSunday. (*) Holiday, games A.M. and P.M. Dates in 
parenthesis without asterisk denote double-header. 

THE INTERSCHOLASTIC GAMES 

Interscholastic Track and Field Championships of the United States will 
be held at Weequahic Park Saturday afternoon, June 10, open to public 
and private schools of the United States. Public Schools Athletic League rules 
to govern. 

Track Events 

100-yard dash. 

220-yard dash. 

440-yard run. 

880-yard run. 

One-mile run. 

Two-mile run. 

Field Events 

Running broad jump. 

Running high jump. 

Pole vault — for height. 

12-pound shot put. 

Discus throw. 

Javelin throw. 

Relay Event 

One-mile relay race (team of 4 boys — each boy to run 440 yards). 

Prizes 

Gold, silver and bronze medals (special design) to first, second and third 
in each event. 

Point trophy will be awarded to school scoring the greatest number of 
points in this meet, which will be emblematic of the Inter-Scholastic Track 
and Field Championship of America. 

Entry fee 50 cents for each entry. Two dollars for relay team — 4-b oy 
teams with two substitutes. Entry fee must accompany the entry. 



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Entries close on Saturday, June 3, 1916, with John F. O'Hara, Director 
of Exhibitions and Athletics (Committee of One Hundred), Kinney Building, 
Newark. 

Regulations 

1 — Events are open to those who have not arrived at their 21st birthday. 
2 — No entry will be received unless placed on the blank below and vouched 
for by the Principal of the school of which the contestant is a member. 3 — 
Any protest must be made in writing within 24 hours after the meet. 4 — 
No one unless official or competitor will be permitted at start or finish. 5 — 
Seats will be reserved for competitors. Competitors mus't remain in seats 
except during their events; violation of this rule may result in disqualifica- 
tion. 6 — Prizes will be given at the close of each event upon presenting a 
certificate from the Chief Scorer. The trophy will be awarded at the close 
of the games. 8 — The first event will be called promptly at 2 P. M. 




Children's Wading Pool, Newark 



BUREAU OF STATISTICAL INFORMATION 
(Branch of City Clerk's Office) 

Southwest corner, fourth floor. City Hall. 

Clerks — Theodore Umbschieden, Benjamin Scligman. 

Information on important subjects, especially those pertaining to munici- 
pal questions, is continually being compiled and indexed here so that as a 
general rule information can be given on most of the important municipal 
questions. 



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The Bureau is used frequently by officials, attaches of departments, law- 
yers, searchers, surveyors' conveyancers and others, and has been highly 
commended for efficiency and on the excellent facilities it affords for the 
convenient acquiring of important and necessary information. 

Access to the books in the library and the archives is limited to employes 
of the bureau, who are all attaches of the City Clerk's office. 

NEWARK TAX RATABLES FOR 30 YEARS 

1886 $ 93,276,277 

1887 9.5,090,552 

1888 96,833,078 

1889 100,415,457 

1890 110,806,895 

1891 117,428,685 

1892 121,889,268 

1893 127,875,134 

1894 128,225,032 

1895 130,085,787 

1896 133,483,311 

1897 137,042,541 

1898 138,373,303 

1899 144,355,011 

1900 148,834,805 

1901 157,320,684 

1902 163,303,004 

1903 167,590,445 

1904 172,375,735 

1905 190.268,717 

1906 284,903,230 

1907 295,787,923 

1908 295,780,793 

1909 327,926,050 

1910 344,821,700 

1911 363,868,614 

1912 383,864,182 

1913 94.301,194 

1914 403,199.704 

1915 440,311,342 

NEWARK POST OFFICE 
Broad and Academy Streets 

Postmaster, John F. Sinnott. 
Assistant Postmaster, William F. Cyphers. 
Postal Cashier, George McLaughlin. 
Superintendent of Mails, Fred G. Stickel. 
Money Order Cashier, Edwin C. Dunn. 
Chief Stamp Clerk, Frank S. Hand. 



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Office Hours 

Cashier's Department — Wcek-daj', 8 A. M. to 5 P. M. Closed on Sundays 
and Holidays. 

General Delivery Window— Week-day, 6:30 A. M. to 10 P. M. Holiday, 
6:30 A. M. to 12 M.; 8 P. M. to 10 P. M. 

Stamp Window— Week-day, 6:30 A. M. to 11 P. M. Sunday, 2 P. M. to 
6 P. M. Holiday, 7 A. M. to 10 P. M. 

Registry Window— Week-day 7:30 A. M. to 9 P. M. Holiday, 7:30 
A. M. to U M. 

Money Order Window — Week-day, 8:30 A. M. to .. P. M. Closed on 
Sundays and Holidays. 

Carriers' Window— Week-day, 6:30 A. M. to 5 P. M. Holiday, 6:30 
A. M. to 12 M. 

Inquiry Division — Week-day, 8 A. M. to 5:30 P. M. Holidays, 8 A. M. 
to 12 M. 

Postal Savings Bank — Week-day, 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. (Mondays until 
9 P. M.) Closed on Sundays and Holidays. 

PARCELS POST 

Parcels weighing four ounces or less are mailable at the rate of one cent 
for each ounce or fraction of an ounce, regardless of distance. Parcels weigh- 
ing more than four ounces are mailable at the pound rates shown in the follow- 
ing table, a fraction of a pound being considered a full pound. 

Local Zone — Embracing Newark, Harrison, Irvington, Belleville and Nut- 
ley. — Five cents for the first pound and one cent for each additional two 
pounds or fraction thereof, up to and including 50 pounds. 

First Zone — -50 miles. — ^Five cents for the first pound and one cent for each 
additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 50 pounds. 
Second Zone — 50 to 150 miles. — Five cents for the first pound and one cent 
for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 50 pounds. 

Third Zone — 150 to 300 miles. — Six cents for the first pound and two 
cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 20 
pounds. 

Fourth Zone — 300 to 600 miles. — Seven cents for the first pound and four 
cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 20 
pounds. 

Fifth Zone — 600 to 1000 miles. — Eight cents for the first pound and six 
cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 20 
pounds. 

Sixth Zone — 1000 to 1400 miles. — Nine cents for the first pound and eight 
cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 
2© pounds. 

Seventh Zone — 1400 to 1800 miles. — Eleven cents for the first pound and 
ten cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 
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Eighth Zone — All over 1800 miles — Twelve cents for the first pound and 
twelve cents for each additional pound or fraction thereof, up to and including 
20 pounds. 

Insurance Rates — Up to $25.00, 5 cents; $25.00 to $50.00, 10 cents. At- 
tach additional stamps for this fee to parcel and obtain receipt for parcel. 

Parcels may be sent C. O. D. (collect on delivery) for any amount up to 
$100 for a fee of 10 cents, in addition to regular parcels post rates. This fee 
also insures parcel in amount not exceeding $50. 

Postal Stations 

Harrison Station, 402 Harrison Avenue. 

Irvington Station, Springfield Avenue, Irvington. 

Belleville Station, 109 Washington Avenue, Belleville. 

Nutley Station, Franklin Avenue, Nutley. 

No. 1, Orange Street and Roseville Avenue. 

No. 2, Sherman and Frelinghuysen Avenues. 

No. 3, Elm and Pacific Streets. 

No. 4, 193 Clinton Avenue. 

No. 5, Belleville Avenue and Oriental Street. 

No. 6, 201 Central Avenue. 

No. 7, 3 Belmont Avenue. 

No. 8, 28 Bowery Street. 

No. 9, Washington and Elwood Avenues. 

No. 10, 187 Bloomfield Avenue. 

No, 11, 349 Broad Street. 

No. 12, 367 South Orange Avenue. 

No. 13, 812 Clinton Avenue. 

No. 14, Clinton and Badger Avenues. 

No. 15, 131 Hamburg Place. 

No. 16, West and Morton Streets. 

No. 17, 415 Washington Avenue. 

No. 18, Garside Street and Seventh Avenue. 

No. 19, 449 Broad Street. 

No. 20, 95 Belleville Avenue. 

No. 21, 56 Watson Avenue. 

No. 22, 25 Wallace Place. 

No. 23, 66 Sixteenth Avenue. 

No. 24, 53 Madison Street. 

No. 25, 371 Bloomfield Avenue. 

No. 26, 4G0 Springfield Avenue. 

No. 27, 77 Lincoln Park. 

No. 28, 290 Morris Avenue. 

No. 29, 659 Springfield Avenue. 

No. 30, 178 Spruce Street. 

No. 31. 169 Plane Street. 

No. 32, 62 Springfield Avenue. 



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No. 33, 439 Washington Street. 

No. 34, 238 Kearny Avenue, Kearny. 

No. 35, 1041 South Orange Avenue (Vailsburg). 

No. 36, 200 Ferry Street. 

No. 37, 318 Mulberry Street. 

No. 38, 1358 Springfield Avenue. 

No. 39, 175 Elizabeth Avenue. 

No. 40, 283 Park Avenue. 

No. 41, 398 Central Avenue. 

No. 42, 132 South Orange Avenue. 

No. 43, 507 Central Avenue. 

No. 44, 684 Mt. Prospect Avenue. 

No. 45, 121 Market Street. 

No. 46, 95 Pacific Street. 

No. 47, 526 Ferry Street. 

No. 48, 913 Bergen Street. 

No. 49, 202 Grant Ave. East Newark. 

No. 50, 357 Washington Avenue, Belleville. 

No. 51, 625 Broad Street. 

No. 52, 637 Frelinghuysen Avenue. 

No. 53, 112 Clinton Place. 

No. 54, 612 South Orange Avenue. 

No. 55, 284 Verona Avenue. 

No. 56, 281 16th Avenue. 

No. 57, 461 Hunterdon Street. 

No. 58, 266 Orange Street. 

U. S. Custom House 

Post Office Building, 735 Broad corner Academy Street. Open from 
9 A. M. to 4:30 P. M. Deputy Collector in charge, Frederick S. Freed. 

U. S. Internal Revenue Department Fifth District of New Jersey 

Rooms 901 to 912, 9th floor Kinney Building. 

Office hours, 9 A. M., to 4:30 P. M. Saturdays, 9 A. M. to 12 M. Tele- 
phone 3381 Mulberry. 

Collector, Chas. V. Duffy. 

Chief Deputy, Raymond J. Newman. 

Cashier, Samuel Ferris. 

Division Deputies 

Chas. F. Duffy, James E. Kerwin, Joseph E. Cavanagh, Thos. J. Daven- 
port. 

Motion Picture Houses 

Carlton, Market Street, near Halsey; seats 1,100. 
City Seventh Street, near Central Avenue. 



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Court, Hricntiiall and Xolsoii Place and High Street; seats 800. 
Goodwin, 863 Broad Street; seats 800. 
Odeon, 100 Springfield Avenue; seats 1,400. 
Paramount, Broad Street, corner Hill; seats 1,100. 
Strand, 120 Market Street; seats 1,250. 

State Commission for the Blind 

5-1 James Street. President, Mrs. Albert T. Beckett, Salem. 

State Civil Service Commission 

Headquarters, Trenton. Meets every Tuesday. Branch offices: New- 
ark (4th floor City Hall); Jersey City, Paterson. Members: Edward H. 
Wright, Newark; George H. Burke, Paterson; Joseph S. Hoff, Princeton. 
Theodore M. Smith, Jersey City. Gardner Colby, East Orange, Secretary 
and Examiner; Thomas P. Mernin, Trenton, Assistant Secretary; Charles 
P. Messick, Trenton Assistant Examiner. 

POPULATION OF ESSEX COUNTY 
State Census of 1915 

Belleville Town 11,9()G 

Bloomfield Town •. 17,300 

Caldwell Township 782 

Caldwell Borough 3,409 

Cedar Grove Township 2,979 

East Orange City 40,961 

Essex Fells Borough 538 

Glen Ridge Borough 4,153 

., Irvington Town 20,342 

Livingston Township 1,202 

Millburn Township 4,372 

Montclair Town 25,029 

Newark City 366,721 

North Caldwell Borough 664 

Nutley Town 7,987 

Orange City 29,805 

Roseland Borough 593 

South Orange Township 4,676 

South Orange Village 5,866 

Verona Borough 2,643 

West Caldwell Borough 690 

West Orange Town 13,610 

566,324 



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NEWARK CITY HOME 

(Tel. 101 Montclair) 

Located at Verona, N. J. 

President— Mayor Thomas L. Raymond (ex-ofEcio). 

Superintendent and Secretary — Carl G. Heller. 

The object of the institution is to reform boys committed by the Judge of 
the Juvenile Court for truancy and conduct beyond control of parents. It is 
a public institution supported by the city. Visiting days first Saturday of 
each month, between 1 and 4 P. M. 



PASSENGER STATIONS IN NEWARK 
(Timetables on Application) 

Pennsylvania Railroad, Market Street. Trains eastbound for New York; 
westbound for Elizabeth, Rahway, New Brunswick, Trenton, Philadelphia 
Pittsburgh, Chicago and points west; Baltimore, Washington, Richmond and 
points south; Long Branch, Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Cape May and other 
points on the New Jersey coast. 

Central Railroad of New Jersey, 840 Broad Street. Trains for New 
York, Elizabeth, Plainfield, Bound Brook, Somerville, Easton, Bethlehem, 
AUentown, Mauch Chunk, Wilkes-Barre, Scranton; Freehold, Long Branch, 
Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Cape May and other points on the New Jersey 
coast; Trenton, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington. 

Lackawanna Railroad, Broad and State Streets. Trains eastbound for 
New York; westbound for the Oranges, Montclair, Summit, Morristown, 
Dover, Easton, Lake Hopatcong, Delaware Water Gap, Scranton, Bingham- 
ton, Syracuse, Utica, Oswego, Buffalo and points west. 

Lehigh Valley Railroad, Park View Station, Elizabeth and Meeker Ave- 
nues. Trains eastbound for New York; westbound for South Plainfield, 
Easton, Bethlehem, Mauch Chunk, Wilkes-Barre, Pittston, Buffalo, Niagara 
Falls and points west. 

Erie Railroad, Newark Branch, Fourth Avenue and Passaic Street. Trains 
eastbound for New York; westbound for Paterson, connecting for through 
trains west. 

Erie Railroad, Greenwood Lake Division and Orange and Caldwell 
Branches North Newark Station, Washington and Verona Avenues. Trains 
eastbound for New York; westbound for Orange, Caldwell, Montclair, Lit- 
tle Falls, Pompton, Wanaque- Mid vale, and Greenwood Lake. 

Hudson and Manhattan Railroad, Electric Rapid Transit Tubes. Park 
Place Station, Saybrook Place. Trains about every ten minutes to Harrison, 
Manhattan Transfer (connecting with Pennsylvania through trains); Sum- 
mit Avenue, Grove Street, and Exchange Place, Jersey City; Erie terminal, 
Jersey City; Lackawanna terminal, Hoboken; Cortlandt Street, New York, 
and uptown (Sixth Avenue), New York. 



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NEWARK OFFICES OF STATE BOARDS 
Board of Public Utility Commissioners 

Eleventh floor, Kinney Building. Ralph W. E. Donges, President; John 
J. Treacey, John W. Slocum; Alfred N. Barber, Secretary. 
Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners 

Room 820, Essex Building. Bernard W. Terlinde, Newark, Chairman; 
Peter Hauck, Harrison; Frank J. Van Noort, M.D., Paterson; John J. 
Berry, Newark; James G. Baluvelt, Paterson. Adrian Riker, Newark, 
Counsel; Jospeh H. Quigg, Paterson, Secretary and Treasurer; William 
M. Brown, Newark, Chief Engineer. 

State Department of Motor Vehicles 

William L. Dill, State Commissioner, holds hearings Mondays 7:45 A. M., 
Public Works Board rooms. City Hall. Department headquarters, New 
Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, 22 Washington Place. 

27TH ANNUAL CONGRESS SONS OF AMERICAN 
REVOLUTION 

The Sons of the American Revolution was formed in New Jersey, March 
7th, 1889. The 27th Annual Congress of the Society will be held this year 
in the Robert Treat Hotel, May 13th to 17th. President Wilson has been 
invited to extend a word of greeting to the delegates in the parlors of the hotel 
on Saturday evening. May 13th. 

The Congress will open with a religious service to be held at Trinity 
Church, Sunday afternoon at 4:30 P. M. Right Rev. Edwin S. Lines, D.D., 
Bishop of Diocese of the New Jersey and Chaplin of the New Jersey Society 
S. A. R. will preach the sermon. On Sunday evening there will be a patriotic 
Evening Service in the parlors of the hotel to be conducted by the Chaplain 
General Richard L. McCready, D.D., of Louisville, Kentucky. A feature 
of this service will be an address by former President-General R. C. Ballard- 
Thurston on "The Origin and Development of the American Flag." 

The business session of the Congress will open on Monday, May 1.5th, at 
10 A. M. The address of welcome will be delivered by Governor Fielder 
and the freedom of the city will be extended by Mayor Thos. L. Raymond. 
The session will last until 4:30 P. M. 

A luncheon will be served to the lady visitors and to the ladies of the families 
of the New Jersey members in the dining-room of the hotel on Monday at 
12:30 P. M. 

Former President- General and Ex-Governor Franklin Murphy has ex- 
tended an invitation to the members of the Congress and the visiting ladies, 
and to the Board of Managers of the New Jersey Society, to attend a recep- 
tion at his home, 1027 Broad Street, Newark, from 5 to 6 P. M. 

On Monday evening, there will be a reception in the ballroom of the hotel 
to all of the guests and New Jersey members. 

On Tuesday May IGth, the Congress will convene at 9 A. M. and will ad- 
journ at 12:30 P. M. On Tuesday afternoon, an automobile ride has been 
arranged to Washington's Headquarters at Morristown. 



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Mr. Joseph La Duca as Tree Spirit in Nature Spirits Dance 



On Tuesday evening at 7:30 P. M. a banquet will be served to all the 
visitors and to the New Jersey members in the ballroom of the hotel. 

On Wednesday morning, a special train has been engaged to convey 
the visitors to Princeton and Trenton. Short exercises will be held in Nas- 
sau Hall including short addresses by President Hibben and by Rev. Sylvester 
W. Beach, D.D. On arrival at Trenton, the visitors will march to the Old 
Barracks, escorted by the Bordentown Military Academy Cadets. Here a 
tablet donated by former President-General Thurston will be unveiled to 
mark the spot where Washington distributed to its rightful owners the loot 
captured from the Hessians at the Battle of Trenton. Luncheon will be 
served at the Old Barracks. Returning, the visitors will reach Newark 
at 6 P. M. This will complete the Congress, but it is e.vpected that many of 
the visitors will remain in Newark for some time to participate in the eventi 
of the 2.50th Anniversary. 



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HOTELS 

Commercial Hotel, 20.5 Washington Street. 

CONTINENTAL HOTEL, 454 Broad Street. 

Holland House, 160 Market Street. 

Hotel Aberdeen, 10 Washington Place. 

Hotel Essex, 156 Market Street. 

Hotel Greely, 882 Broad Street. 

Hotel Kelly, 191 Washington Street. 

Hotel Kensington, Mulberry corner Park Street. 

Hotel Lenox, Victor Jacoby, 25 Central Avenue. 

Jackie Clark, 854 Broad Street. 

Jefferson Hotel, 1 New Jersey Railroad Avenue. 

Palace Hotel, opposite Pennsylvania Railroad Station. 

ROBERT TREAT HOTEL, Military Park. 

Roseville Hotel, 123 Roseville Avenue. 

Stag Hotel, 44 Bank Street. 

Tinquer House, 59 Court Street. 

THEATRES 

Keeney's 30 Branford Place; vaudeville; seats 2,000. 

Loew's, 101 Springfield Ave.; vaudeville; seats 1,700. 

Lyric, 211 Market Street; vaudeville; seats 1,500. 

Metropolitan, Montgomery Street, near Prince; Jewish drama; seats 900. 

Miner's Empire, 265 Washington Street; burlesque; seats 1,570. 

Newark, 193 Market Street; drama; seats 1,800. 

Orpheum, 385 Washington Street; stock; seats 1,700. 

Proctor's Palace, 112 Market Street; vaudeville; seats 3,000. 

Proctor's Park Place, 88 Park Place; seats 1,700. (Closed.) 

Shubert, 568 Broad; legitimate drama; seats 1,500. 



MOTORING TOURS FROM NEWARK 

(From advance sheets of "Motor Highways oLNew Jersey" for 1916, 
issued by the Newark Sunday Call.) 

Motorists may obtain touring literature and other information at the 
house of the New Jersey Automobile and Motor Club, 22 Washington Place, 
which is also the local office of the State Department of Motor Vehicles. 

No. 1. To South Mountain Reservation, via South Orange — West 
on Market Street. At Courthouse, left on Springfield Avenue. Bear right 
on South Orange Avenue. West through Vailsburgh section, past Seton 
Hall, into South Orange. Straight ahead under railroad, up hill. Fine 
views to east. At top of Orange Mountain is Reservation. Continue down 
slope. First right hand road leads past Orange reservoir to St. Cloud, Rose- 
jand. Eagle Rock and Montclair. First left hand road is Brookside drive, 
] ading to Millburn and Short Hills. Hemlock Falls is ten minutes' walk 
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No. 2. To Eagle Rock. North on Broad Street. Left on Central Avenue 
to Center Street, East Orange. Right on Center Street to Park Avenue. 
Left on Park Avenue. Bear right up hill to Eagle Rock Reservation. 

No. 3. Mountain Circuit. North on Broad Street into Belleville Ave- 
nue. Left on Bloomfield Avenue to Montclair. Turn left on Prospect 
Avenue, after crossing hill. Straight ahead, past Eagle Rock Reservation to 
St. Cloud. Bear right on Northfield Avenue. Turn left past Orange Reser- 
voir. Keep left at fork into Cherry Lane. Right on South Orange Avenue. 
Left on Brookside drive to Millburn. Left at four corners, following road 
through Hilton to Irvington. Right on Clinton Avenue to Newark. 

No. 4. To Weehawken Ferry, via Lincoln Highway. East on Mar- 
ket Street to Lincoln Highway (Plank Road), across meadows to (5.7) Hudson 
County Boulevard. Turn left. Continue ahead to where cemetery is on 
left. Turn right on Morgan Street to its end. Left and then right. At end of 
street left and then right, downhill, to (10.8) Weehawken Ferry. 

Weehawken Ferry to Newark. From ferry-house, follow trolley, 
bearing right uphill. At Hudson Boulevard turn left and immediately right. 
At tracks turn left and next right to Hudson Boulevard. Turn left. At 
third trolley line, turn right and head on Lincoln Highway into (10.8) Mar- 
ket Street, Newark. 

No. 5. To Weehawken Ferry, via Turnpike. North on Broad Street. 
Turn right on Bridge Street, through Harrison and across meadows. Up grade 
to (6.1) Hudson County Boulevard. Turn left. Continue to where ceme- 
tery is on left. Turn right on Morgan Street to its end. Left and then right 
into Third Street. At end of street, left and then right, downhill, to (11.2) 
Weehawken Ferry. 

No. 6. To Jersey City, Pennsylvania Ferry. East on Market Street 
to Lincoln Highway (Plank Road), across meadows to (5.7) Hudson County 
Boulevard. Turn left on boulevard one-half mile. Turn right into Glenwood 
Avenue. At armory bear right and then left into Mercer Street. At street's 
end turn right and next left in Montgomery Street to (9.4) Ferry, 
Jersey City. 

No. 7. To Dyckman Street, New York, via Englewood and Palisades 
Interstate Park. North on Broad Street to cemetery, where turn left into 
Belleville Avenue through Belleville. Follow trolleys to Avondale Avenue. 
Turn right, crossing Passaic River, at end of bridge turning left into River 
road, with right fork beyond to (7.6) Rutherford. Cross tracks at railroad 
station, to road's end at Paterson Avenue, into which turn right. Turn left 
at next street. Ahead through Carlstadt, Woodridge, Hasbrouck Heights 
to Terrace Avenue, Hackensack. At intersection with Essex Street turn 
right into (13.1) Hackensack. Left on Main Street. Right on Anderson, 
across river, turning left into Grand Avenue, (18.2) Englewood. Turn 
right on Palisade Avenue and continue direct, descending hill to ferry (19.4). 

No. 8. To New York, via Staten Island. South on Broad Street to 
Clinton Avenue, where turn right. Left on Elizabeth Avenue. Straight 
ahead left past station and across railroad, bearing left and ahead into Broad 



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Street, (5.5) Elizabeth. Turn left into East Jersey Street. Right on 
Division Street. Left on Fninklin Street. Left on First Street. Right 
on East Jersey Street to (7.7) EHzabethport Ferry. Cross to Rowland 
Hook. Straight out, over bridge. Turn right half mile beyond to end of 
road. Turn left on Washington Avenue. At Granite ville (11.3) miles, 
end of road, turn left with trolley to (12.8) Port Richmond. Sharp right. 
At power-house sharp right, passing Sailors' Snug Harbor. Direct ahead 
to Richmond borough hall. Turn left down hill to St. George ferry to (16.8) 
New York. 

Return from New York via Staten Island: South Ferry, take ferry 
to St. George. From ferry bear left to Richmond borough hall. Turn right 
through New Brighton, passing Sailors' Snug Harbor. At fork keep left to 
road's end. Turn right and next left into (4.) Port Richmond. Sharp left, 
following trolley into Graniteville (.5.5 miles). Sharp right on Washington 
avenue. At fork keep right over bridge to end of road. Turn left to (9.1). 
Howland Hook Ferry. Cross ferry to EHzabethport. Straight out from 
ferry. Left on P^irst Street. Right on Franklin Street. Right on Division 
Street into East Jersey Street, which follow to Broad Street. (11.3) Eliza- 
beth. Turn right on Broad Street. Ahead past Soldiers' Monument, 
keeping right at fork with trolley. Continue to Clinton Avenue. Bear 
right at Broad Street, bear left to Broad and Market Streets, (16.8) Newark. 

No. 9. To Coney Island. Follow Route No. 6 to (9.4) Jersey City. 
Cross ferry to Cortlandt Street, New York. Ahead to Broadway. Turn 
left to Park Row and Brooklyn Bridge. Cross bridge, bearing right into 
Fulton Street and right into Clinton Street. At Pacific Avenue turn left- 
Right on Fourth Avenue. Left on Lincoln Place to plaza, ahead through 
Prospect Park to southern end. Bear left into Ocean Parkway to (21.5) 
Coney Island. 

No. 10. To New York via Fort Lee. Follow Tour No. 7 to Essex 
Street, Hackensack (13.1), then direct ahead on Essex Street into Hudson 
Street, through Bogota and Leonia to Fort Lee ferry (20.4) to 130th Street 
New York. 

No. 11. To Nyack via Hackensack. Follow Route No. 7 to Grand 
Avenue, Englewood (18.2). Direct ahead into Eagle Street, turning left 
into Hudson Street. Fifth of mile beyond turn right. Ahead through 
Closter, following travel to (29.5) Sparkhill. Just before railroad turn right 
a mile beyond bearing left toward Hudson River. Follow river bank north 
through Piermont into (34.8) Nyack. 

No. 12. To Branchville via Pompton. North on Broad Street 
following trolleys into Belleville Avenue. Bear left into Bloomfield Avenue 
through Bloomfield and Glen Ridge, through (5.7) Montclair. At hotel 
top of hill keep right, leaving trolleys. Beyond garage turn right into Pomp- 
ton Pike. Ahead through Cedar Grove, Singac and Mountain View to fork 
with bridge over river ahead. Turn right into (19.) Pompton. Beyond 
hotel, bear left, cross bridge. Ahead, keeping right at fork in Bloomingdale 



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{ii.2 miles) on obvious roiul liiroiiij,li (29.8) Newfoundland. Alu'iui, pass- 
ing Oak llidgc reservoir (off lo left) into (35.2) Stockholm. Turn left at 
liolel imd ahead, niakinj;- ascent and descent to road's end. Turn right into 
(40.7) Franklin Furnace. Hear left and ahead through Franklin and 
Monroe, turning right at four corners and right short distance beyond. Keep 
left, through .\ugusta, into (54.2) Branchville. 

No. 13. To Newburgh, N. Y., via Ridgewood. North on Hroad 
Street to cemetery. Turn left and next right into Belleville Avenue. North 
with trolleys, leaving them at Nutley (5 miles). End of road turn right 
and then left. Ahead into Main Street, (9.7) Passaic. At station keep to right 
on Lexington Avenue. Follow river bank three miles past cemetery. Short 
distance beyond turn right on Market Street. (Direct ahead leads into 
Paterson, 13 miles). Cross river. Just beyond, turn sharp left along river. 
At icehouses turn right and continue into (19.1) Ridgewood. Straight 
ahead, bearing left into (20.4) Hohokus, and left onto macadam. Ahead 
through (24.6) Ramsey, and (27.2) Mahwah, into (29.) Suffern, Cross 
railroad and direct through (31.) Ramapo and Sloatsburg, through (35.4) 
Tuxedo, (See Note) and on winding road past (39.4) Southfield. At tri- 
angular fork, bear sharp right under railroad through (46.7) Central Valley. 
Pass through Highland Mills (49.1 miles), to (57.) Vailsgate. Sharp right 
around hotel. At trolley tracks, turn right into (61.7) Newburgh. 

No. 14. To Lake Hopatcong. North on Broad Street as on Tour No. 
12 to (5.7) Montclair. Follow trolleys through Verona and Caldwell. 
Ahead, avoiding right hand roads, through Pine Brook, curving left uphill 
direct ahead to four corners at (17.7) Parsippany. (Right leads to Boonton; 
left to Whippany, Morristown and Morris Plains). Direct through 
crossing railroad at grade and passing right hand road leading to Mountain 
Lakes, to road's end at (21.2) Denville. Sharp right on direct road through 
Rockaway (21.3 miles). Right fork at center leads to Lake Denmark. 
Bear left on macadam to bridge crossing canal and railroad. Just beyond 
turn sharp right into (26.4) Dover. Straight through with trolley, past 
Kenvil, avoiding left hand road to Succasunna, and leaving trolleys. Cross 
canal. At trolleys turn right tlirough Ledgewood (31.6 miles). Direct 
ahead, past Mt. Arlington station, keeping right up grade through Mt. Arlington 
to (36.8) Nolan's Point. For Landing, River Styx and new Maxim road, 
direct through from Ledgewood, avoiding left hand turn, into (33.7) Landing. 
Road to River Styx and beyond follows lake's shore. 

No. 15. To Delaware Water Gap. South on Broad Street, bearing 
right into Clinton Avenue. Ahead to Irvington Center (3.4 miles), bearing 
left. Direct through Hilton. (Right with trolleys leads to Millburn). 
^b^re .trpUey swerves to keep right straight to end of road at (8.) Spring;^ 
3eI<l,...;Bear right and continue on direct road over Hobart Hill and down 
grade, across Passaic River into Chatham (12.3 miles), through Madison 



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(14.3 miles), crossing railroad into (19.) Morristown. Pass park and con- 
tinue straight ahead to fork nearly a mile beyond, where bear left and con- 
tinue direct to (26.1) Mendham. Pass through and continue on broad road, 
up hill and down, to Chester Four Corners. Sharp left into (31.5) Chester. 
Direct through to central corners of (36.2) German Valley. Sharp right 
crossing railroad and bearing left up hill over Schooleys Mountain and down 
slope beyond. At three corners with bridge continue direct to monument, 
turning left into Main Street, (42.6) Hackettstown. Straight ahead across 
railroad and bridge. Direct ahead through (46.5) Vienna. Bear left into 
Great Meadows Station (47.5 miles). Ahead into (48.1 ) Danville. At next left 
hand road turn left. At road's end at Buttzville (54.4 miles), turn right through 
Bridgeville (55.7 miles). At riglit hand road, mile and a half beyond, turn 
right. (Belvidere is straight ahead.) Direct ahead to Delaware (61.3 
miles). Turn left to (62.7) Meyers Ferry. Leaving ferry, bear right, joining 
main highway which follow into (65.6) Portland, Pa. Direct thence into 
(71.) Delaware Water Gap. 




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No. 16. To Princeton via Somerville. South on Broad Street into 
Clinton Avenue. Direct with trolleys through Irvington and Hilton. Where 
trolleys bear right, keep straight ahead on Seven Bridges road. At trolley 
tracks turn right through (8.) Springfield. (Left at church leads to Plain- 
field.) Straight through, under arch bridge. Near hilltop (danger signs) 
turn left, following road to Springfield Avenue, (10.7) Summit. Straight 
through, crossing track at grade at West Summit. Ahead through New Provi- 
dence and Berkeley Heights. Cross river and railroad, with caution for right 



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hand road -'5.7 miles beyond. Turn right to station at (19.6) Millington. 
Beyond tracks turn left up hill and keep right at fork beyond. Thence on 
main macadam into (24.9) Basking Ridge. Turn left one block and next 
right. Ahead to four corners, where turn left into (25.3) Bernardsville. 
Straight ahead past station, crossing tracks at Far Hills. Straight on to 
corners at (29.8) Bedminster. Turn left and thence direct, passing through 
Pluckemin, to road's end. Sharp left into center of (38.6) Somerville. 
South on Bridge Street, through Somerville. Ahead on macadam through 
Belle Mead (46.9 miles) bearing left through Harlingen to end of road at 
(51) Rocky Hill. Turn left. Ahead to corners at (54.3) Kingston. Sharp 
right, past Carnegie Lake, into (57.1) Princeton. 

No. 17. To Asbury Park. South on Broad Street, bearing right on 
Clinton Avenue. Left on Elizabeth Avenue. Straight ahead, across railroad, 
bearing left to Soldiers' Monument, (5.3) Elizabeth. Turn right into West- 
field Avenue, cross trollej% and two blocks beyond turn left into Cherry Street. 
At end of road turn right into Rahway Avenue and continue straight into 
(11.9) Rahway. Cross railroad, then bridge, to .second railroad crossing. 
Bear sharp right at first turn beyond railroad, then straight through cross- 
roads and through Woodbridge (15.7 miles). Parallel the railroad and then 
bear right, following Amboy Avenue. End of street turn left across railroad 
into (18.6) Perth Amboy. Turn right on Prospect Street and at end of 
street left on Market Street. Then left on Sheridan Avenue and cross long 
Amboy bridge. Bear left at end of road, then left, and right again at end of 
road, (21.7) South Amboy. At center of town continue up grade and turn 
to right, then left through Morgan's to (27.1) Keyport. Right on Broad 
Street. Cross railroad, continuing through Middletown (33.7 miles), across 
river, turning left beyond bridge and right beyond. Turn left on Front Street, 

(38.1) Red Bank. Right on Broad Street. Brick church, left on Bassett 
Street. Direct ahead. (Rumson Road to Seabright turns to left.) Cross 
long bridge, bearing right at fork. (Port-au-Peck is to left.) Cross Pleasure 
Bay bridge. Meeting trolley, follow same to right. At four corners turn left. 
At end of street turn left into Broadway, which follow to Ocean Avenue, 

(45.2) Long Branch. Sharp right. Ahead through West End, curving 
loft on Ocean Avenue, through Elberon, Deal, into (50.3) AUenhurst. End 
of road turn right and then left on Norwood Avenue across Deal Lake. At 
end I f bridge turn left and then right along ocean to AsburyAvenue, (51.6) 
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THE NEW PUBLIC SERVICE TERMINAL 

I irtin Pclireiber, M. Am. Soc. C. E., Engineer Maintenance of Way, 
PublJ" Service Railway Co. 

Jacobs & Davies, consulting engineers. 
Geoige B. Post & Sons, Consulting Architects. 



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Work started June 24, 1914. 

Tunnel and foundation completed within one year. 

Cornerstone of building laid July 20, 1915. 

Building opened for street railway operation, April 30, 1916. 

8,000 tons of steel and 4,000,000 brick used in structure, besides marble, 
limestone, terra cotta, hollow brick, concrete, tile, mosaic and slate. 

Miles and miles of wire, piping and conduit. 

Newark's new electric railway terminal is unique in the development of 
the electric railway industry; not only on account of the magnitude of the 
project, which cost more than $5,000,000, but also in that it solves compli- 
cated transportation problems, and because the entire expense of the under- 
taking is borne exclusively by the company. Newark has a population of 
nearly 400,000 and is the center of a rapidly growing metropolitan district of 
at least 1,000,000 persons. In twenty years the population has increased 
85 per cent., and the riding on cars 330 per cent. 

Public Service Railway Company, for which the terminal was built, oper- 
ates 860 miles of road, which covers 136 municipalities and serves a popula- 
tion of approximately 2,100,000 people whose homes are spread over an area 
of 2,000 square miles in New Jersey. Proper electric railway service for 
Newark was a serious problem even prior to 1903. Owing to the fact that 
the street layout is somewhat like a fan, the extensive development of the 
outlying districts built up a traffic of electric cars and other vehicles that 
caused congestion at the crux of the layout. Broad and Market Streets. 

Solving the Problem 

While Mr. Thomas N. McCarter, President of Public Service, was at the 
head of the American Electric Railway Association in 1912, he made an ex- 
tensive tour, in an official capacity, and inspected the most important electric 
railway properties in the United State. During his visit he was very much 
impressed with the results that were obtained through electric railway termi- 
nals, especially in the West, and, on returning home, had a firm conviction 
that the Newark electric railway problem could be best solved by some sort 
of a terminal scheme. His suggestion was to separate the terminal into two 
floors, so that the cars coming from the west would enter a private right- 
of-way near the Morris Canal on Washington Street, and then dropping into 
a subway under Halsey Street, Cedar Street and Broad Street, would enter the 
Park Place Terminal on a sub-surface level, rounding a loop and returning by 
the same route. On the other hand, cars from the north, east and south to 
operate from Mulberry Street on an elevated floor into the terminal struc- 
ture, rounding a loop and returning in the same manner. Or, as President 
McCarter at first put the proposition, one loop was to be super-imposed above 
the other but at opposite ends of the terminal. Preliminary plans were then 
prepared for the site on Park Place and Mulberry Street, just 1,000 feet from 
the "Four Corners," embodying the general scheme outlined, creating a 
terminal which is the logical thing for a city that is fast becoming the center 
for interurban traffic. Besides, it affords a site for an office building for the 
Corporation in the business district in the largest city in New Jersey. 



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Subway 

Beginning at the west of Washington Street there is an open cnt near Plum 
Street beginning on private right-of-way and gradually dropping to the portal 
of the subway adjoining the Y. M. C. A. building on Halscy Street. It con- 
tinues under Halsey Street, under and along Cedar Street and under and 
across Broad Street. At the southerly apex of Military Park, the incoming 
and outgoing tracks diverge and cross under Park Place into the terminal site, 
still at an elevation of about 21 feet below the curb line. The ingoing track 
then diverges into two unloading tracks on the southerly side, each 280 feet 
long. The loading tracks on the northerly side, after passing around the 



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loop, are three in number and are 225 feet long. These three loading tracks 
unite into a single outgoing track into Washington Street. The sub-surface 
of the terminal has a frontage of 18-1 feet on Park Place, and extends 512 
feet east across Pine Street. The total area of the sub-surface terminal is 
about 104,000 square feet. 

The loading tracks are supplied with six stairways to the concourse which 
is to be on the street level, and the unloading tracks have four stairways for 
exit. Besides, there is a single stairway on the center platform, as the eleva- 
tors in the front wing do not extend below the concourse. The space in the 
East Park Street wing is devoted to boilers and power plant accessories. The 
area left by the tracks on the Park Place front is utilized for the company's 
mailing department. The North Canal Street wing is taken up by the 
building stores and the building carpenter and building engineer. Besides 
the actual space on the subway floor there is an additional mezzanine floor 
over the North Canal Street wing. 

Elevated Train Floor 

The elevated train floor at and above the surface of the ground takes care 
of the cars from the east, south and north. The tracks leave Mulberry Street 
and gradually ascend on an elevated structure to Pine Street, where the 
elevation is sufficient for vehicular traffic clearance underneath the track sup- 
porting trestle. When the structure reaches the clearance elevation at Pine 
Street, it continues on the same level to Park Place. The unloading tracks are 
on the north side and are two in number, approximately 140 feet and 170 
feet long. There are three loading tracks on the south side, 190 feet, 180 
feet and 140 feet long. So, by superimposing the two train floors, one 
above the other, the unloading tracks of the subway are directly underneath 
the loading tracks of the elevated platform. Likewise, the loading tracks of 
the subway are directly underneath the unloading tracks of the elevated train 
floor. 

For the loading platforms there are six stairways leading to the concourse 
and five stairways for the unloading platforms. The westerly stairway is 
11 feet wide. The East Park Street wing on the elevated floor is taken up by 
coal conveying machinery for the power plant, and the North Canal Street 
wing is utilized for division offices and the general employment bureau. The 
inside of the loop provides a space for the main elevators incidental to the 
Park Place entrance. The entire area of the elevated train floor is 70,000 
square feet, the same as that of the subway train floor. 

Concourse Floor 

The separation of the train floors provides a clear space of 70,000 square 
feet on the ground floor of the terminal. Not only does it provide a concourse 
for the interchange of passengers between two train platforms, but there also 
remains additional space for the commercial show rooms of Public Service 
Gas Company and Public Service Electric Company. Stairways separately lead 
to both the elevated and subway platforms, with waiting rooms, lavatories. 



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Office Building 

The ground floor and elevated floor of the terminal will cover practically 
the entire site between Park Place and Pine Street, but extending above the 
third floor is an oflSce building of six stories, making the layout complete to 
house the home offices of Public Service. 

Each office floor has an area of 30,000 square feet, or approximately one- 
half of the available plot bounded by Park Place, North Canal Street, Pine 
Street and East Park Street. Each wing of the building is only two rooms 
deep, so that all offices will have outside windows. These offices will be occu- 
pied by the gas, the railway and the electric companies. The fourth floor 
is the quarters of the treasurer of the corporation; also the auditing depart- 
menL^ of the Public Service Gas and Electric Comi)anies, as well as the general 
assembly room. The fifth floor is devoted to the gas company, auditing de- 
partment of the railway company and the publicity department. The sixth 
floor is reserved for the offices of the railway company. On the seventh floor 
are the legal, claim and welfare departments of the corporation, with the 
operating offices of the Public Service Electric Company, also the law and 
technical library and the real estate department. The eighth floor is devoted 
to the executives of the corporation, the general claim department, ofl5cers' 
and employes' dining rooms. Over the eighth floor are the kitchen and 
chef's headquarters. 

On the east side of Pine Street and under the elevated structure, a garage, 
100 feet by 150 feet houses 45 cars and provides a means of eliminating the 
parking of the company's autos blocking the street and building entrances, 
booths and elevators. There are separate entrances on the ground floor at 
Park Place, Pine Street, North Canal Street and East Park Street. The 
show rooms of the commercial department have similar conveniences. As 
an adjunct to the different entrances into the concourse, there are three 
sets of elevators for the office building. 

In the main concourse considerable area is devoted to commercial booths. 
At the Park Place entrance a large lobby is located. Besides, a marquise 
extends over the sidewalk all along Park Place frontage, also on North Canal 
Street, East Park Street and over the elevated on Pine Street, the latter to 
protect the openings into the train shed. 

At the easterly and southerly ends of the concourse, the school of instruc- 
tion of the railway company, the station master and check room for the 
assembly hall are located. 

The Park Place and North Canal Street elevations are finished in Blue 
Indiana limestone, and the East Park Street elevation is trimmed in the 
same material. 

Lighting 

The system of lighting the building was planned for both gas and elec- 
tricity, so that either may be used, combination gas and electric outlets being 
installed throughout the building. Four services are brought into the build- 
ing, two for light and two for power to the transformers in the basement. 
The wiring is to be installed in a rigid conduit system, which is imbedded in 
the concrete floors of the building. 



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The illumination of the various offices includes 2,500 fixtures and the 
semi-indirect fixtures have glass of the highest efficiency and diffusive powers. 

Illumination of the exterior is accomplished through the use of a series of 
lights with parabolic reflectors located along the edge of the marquise, so as to 
throw the light over the surface of the building. 

A complete system of push buttons and annunciators for the respective 
officers and their staffs has been provided for throughout the building. 

A fire alarm system connects with the city department and also with an- 
nunciators in the operating engineer's offices to indicate the location of a 
possible fire in the building. 

A watchman's system installed so that a watchman's time is recorded on 
the clock as he makes his rounds. 

There is a complete system of telephone, conduits, outlet boxes, inter- 
connection strips, etc., with the operating room located on the fifth floor 
of the building. 

A system of secondary clocks operated from a master clock is placed in the 
elevator halls and large offices. 

Some of the Details 

The complete floor space of the terminal is 451,000 square feet, or about 
ten acres, made up as follows: Subway floor 104,000 square feet; concourse 
floor 70,000 square feet; six additional stories 180,000 square feet; elevated 
floor 70,000 square feet; kitchen and pent house 12,000 square feet, and garage 
east of Pine Street 15,000 square feet. The office building contains 235 work- 
ing rooms, and there are 394 including utility rooms. 

The foundations and structural work are designed for future extension of 
the office building to Pine Street, that will allow 50 per cent, more office 
space, or at least 90,000 square feet of floor area. Besides, there is a building 
space on Halsey Street and private right-of-way with a frontage of 80 feet 
and 150 feet deep, or 12,000 square feet per floor, that may be utilized. 

The real estate involved is approximately 130,000 square feet, or about 
three acres. Real estate has been purchased adjacent to the terminal site 
between Pine Street and Mulberry Street, so that if ever in the future the 
canal bed is used for cars a connection can be made into the terminal. The 
entire excavation was 100,000 cubic yards, concrete 92,000 cubic yards, 
waterproofing 460,000 square feet, steel work 9,000 tons. 

The entire amount of piping and conduits is approximately 44 miles. 

The final specifications consisted of 109,000 words, and the blue prints of 
drawings sent out amounted to 70,000 square feet, or an area equal to that of 
Madison Square Garden. 

The contract for the subway, including foundations west of Park Place, 
the entire excavation under the building, extending to Mulberry Street with 
foundations, the retaining walls on Mulberry Street, was let on June 10, 1914, 
to the Holbrook, Cabot & Rollins Corporation of New York, about three 
months after the final approval of the plans was given by the authorities. 
The contract for the remaining portion, including the superstructure, was 
awarded to the Hedden Construction Co., of New York, July 24, 1914. 



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Operation 

Going east in the subway, there is a stop at the point of switch on Wash- 
ington Street, for interchange of passengers. For the outgoing traffic a stop 
is made on private right-of-way just east of Washington Street. Here also is 
a small waiting room. The unloading track in the subway will take care of 
ten cars at one time if necessary. The loading tracks will handle fifteen cars. 




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An electrically operated switch and spacing block system is installed for 
both the subway and elevated tracks so that cars for the different lines will be 
segregated and handled with dispatch. In case of a block in the Terminal 
subway the double crossover under Military Park will serve as a means to get 
cars in and out of the platforms without tying up traffic. All the mail is re- 
ceived and delivered from the mail room on the sub-surface level and a single 
elevator runs direct from the mail room through the concourse floor and up to 
the train floor, so that mail is received and delivered via the electric cars. 



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Likewise, the elevated floor allows a very flexible operation. The curves 
at Mulberry Street are designed for minimum delays. Here there are two 
unloading tracks that may be approached from the north and south on Mul- 
berry Street and take care of six cars, all under cover. The three loading 
platforms will handle ten cars at one time, and un extra loading track may be 
installed at any time. The operation here, as in the subway, is controlled by 
electrical switches and spacing blocks. All curves and special work on 
both floors are constructed of solid manganese steel rail. Generally, the track 
centers for the subway and elevated platforms are 25 feet, giving ample 
clearance for stair landings to and from the concourse floor. 

The unloading platform is on the elevated floor has four exits to the con- 
course floor and the loading platforms, and six stairways entering from the 
concourse floor. All loading and unloading platforms on both floors are 
carefully separated by ornamental iron fences. 

Concourse floor waiting room may be entered from Park Place. East 
Park Street, Pine Street and North Canal Street; also the stairways leading up 
to separate platforms on the elevated floor and down to separate platforms in 
the subway. In the operation of the terminal passengers are not called upon 
to cross tracks in getting on and off cars. Signs show passengers just what 
stairway to use to get to their particular, line with the least confusion. 




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The height of the subway proper, like that of the subway and elevator 
floors of the Terminal, allows the operation of a double deck car. Even 
when passengers are transferred from the subway train floor to the elevated 
train floor, or vice versa, the total climb or descent consists of two lifts of 
18 and 17 feet for subway and elevated floors respectively. The distance from 
the Hudson Tube, Fulton Street, New York, platform to street level is 32 
feet; Bronx Station, 180th Street, New York, 30 feet; Brooklyn Bridge 



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Subway train platform to Bridge platform, 58 feet; Subway, 170th Street, 
46 feet; Third Avenue Elevated, 99th Street, 36 feet; Pennsylvania Railroad 
New York Terminal, train platform to street, 40 feet; Long Island Railroad, 
New York Terminal, subway platform to street, 43 feet. It is estimated that 
400 cars per hour may be easily handled at the Terminal, and figuring 65 
people per car, gives a capacity of at least 25,000 per hour, or 50,000 people in 
both directions. Considering that the Brooklyn Bridge handles only 800,000 
people per day, probably representing 80,000 people in the rush hour, it is 
evident that Newark's new Public Service Terminal will take care of traffic 
congestion for many years to come. 

NEWARK'S NEIGHBORS IN THE CELEBRATION 
Points of Interest for Sightseers in the Suburbs — The Greater Newark 

As the boundaries of Newark originally ran from the Passaic River to 
the top of the Orange Mountains, and included the territories of more than 
a score of present-day municipalities which from time to time have been set 
off from the original settlement, the Committee of One Hundred justly de- 
cided that these communities were entitleld to rejoice with their municipal 
mother on her 250th birthday, and invited them to take part in the festivi- 
ties. These cities, towns and boroughs, on the other hand, will derive ad- 
vantage from the Celebration through excursions by many of Newark's 
guests who between the events of the jubilee will find time to view the varied 
scenic, historic, social and industrial attractions of the progressive com- 
munities which help to make up the Greater Newark. 

The Oranges 

When Robert Treat and his companions fixed their abode on the bank 
of the Passaic River and laid out their domains to the summit of the range 
of hills skirting the settlement on the west, they found the region not altogether 
an untrodden wilderness. The Red Man had been a dweller there many 
generations before them, and had beaten out more than one path from the 
river through the forests, over the hills and as far west as the Delaware. 
One of these old Indian trails may be traversed by the modern tourist, by 
trolley or motor, along Market, Bank and Warren Streets, Newark; Main 
and Washington Streets, in the Oranges, and so on over the mountain. This 
route brings the visitor to the most important group of Newark's Essex 
County suburbs — the Oranges, with their combined population of nearly one 
hundred thousand, their magnificent homes, and their varied attractions 
urban and rural. The Lackawanna Railroad; the Orange branch of the 
Erie, and the Central, Orange, South Orange and Springfield trolley line 
give access to various parts of this well-peopled and thriving group known 
under the general name of the Oranges, and comprising two cities, a town, a 
township and a village. 

Nearest of the Oranges to Newark, and separated from it by a municipal 
line only is the most populous of the group, the City of East Orange. Here 
are a wealth of stately homes, great industries, and many fine public buildings. 



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Notable among the institutions is the beautiful Public Library, the gift of 
Andrew Carnegie. Another feature is the home of the Woman's Club of the 
Oranges. Passing through the busy and handsome City of Orange, noted 
especially for its hat factories, one comes to the Town of West Orange, with 
its many sumptuous private estates on the mountainside, some of them 
grouped in artistically laid-out parks. At Hutton Park is the Es.sex County 
Country Club. Eagle Rock Reservation, described under another head in 
The Manual, lies principally in West Orange town. 

South Orange Township and the village of the same name present another 
array of beautiful residences. The South Mountain Reservation lies largely 
in South Orange, with portions in West Orange and Millburn. The latter 
township has the Canoe Brook Country Club and a large number of fine 
mansions. At South Orange is Seton Hall, a well-known Roman Catholic 
college and seminary. Maplewood, another attractive residential mountain 
section, completes the chain of Essex County communities along the Morris 
and Essex division of the Lackawanna. For the antiquarian and patriot an 
interesting point near South Orange is the Timothy Ball house, built in 1743 
and a frequent resort of Gen. Washington during the Revolutionary cam- 
paigns. 

Bloomfield, Montclair and Caldwell 

To the northwest of Newark, and reached by a branch of the Lackawanna 
Railroad, the Greenwood Lake Division of the Erie, and the Bloomfield trolley 
line, is another chain of towns and boroughs with many points of antiquarian 
and present-day interest for the visitor. Adjoining the big city is Bloom- 
field, one of the most venerable communities in New Jersey; named after a 
famous Revolutionary general; with its fine old Presbyterian church on the 
Green, and replete with places of historic interest as well as handsome modern 
residences. The old Cadmus homestead on Washington Avenue dates from 
the latter part of the seventeenth century, and the Father of His Country 
according to local tradition, was a guest there. At Bloomfield also are the 
Presbyterian Theological Seminary, and the Job Haines Home for the Aged. 

Next along the line of the northwestward journey lies the beautiful resi- 
dential Borough of Glen Ridge, and then the Town of Montclair, with a 
population of more than 25,000, and many superb mansions and landscape 
gardens on the slopes and cliffs of the Watchung Mountain, some of them 
ranking among the show places of the Metropolitan district. Here is the 
Mountainside Hospital; here also is the famed golfing domain of the Upper 
Montclair Country Club. Conspicuous among the sights of Upper Montclair 
almost at the Passaic County line, the State Normal School looks out from an 
elevation of nearly 500 feet over many miles of country side. The stately 
building in mission style, with cream stucco walls and red tiled roof, is a 
landmark for miles around. 

Upper Montclair and Montclair Heights are attained by the Valley Road 
trolley, transferring from Bloomfield Avenue, and the visitor leaving the 
car where the line ends at the Normal School may walk westward up Normal 
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find himself facing the Cedar Grove reservoir of the City of Newark, a verita- 
ble mountain lake with a superb outlook over the valley in which nestles the 
pretty village of Cedar Grove. In that direction also are many charming 
rambles through the woods of the Great Notch region, and toward Little 
Falls and Singac, in Passaic County. 




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Continuing along Bloomfield Avenue after passing Montclair, the next place 
reached in the Borough of Verona, with an elevation at some points of more 
than 650 feet above tidewater. Here are the extensive buildings of the 
Essex County Hospital for the Insane, on the slope of Second Mountain 
at what is known as Overbrook, and the Newark City Home for Boys. The 
trolley line terminates at historic old Caldwell, best known to fame as the 



250th Anniversary, Sfewark, New Jersey 163 

birthplace of Grover Cleveland. The manse where he was born when his 
father, the Rev. Richard F. Cleveland, was pastor of the Caldwel) Presby- 
terian Church is in good preservation and open to visitors. Another his- 
toric place is the Corey house, on Bloomfield Avenue, built in 1778. The 
Essex County Park Commission is laying out Grover Cleveland Park at 
Caldwell as a memorial of the distinguished son of that town. At North 
Caldwell is the Essex County Penitentiary, near by which is the highest 
point in Essex county, 691 feet above tide. 

The Caldwell branch of the Erie will take the tourist still further along 
to Essex Fells, Roseland and Livingston, the farming and residential sections 
of Western Essex, with charming scenery. 

Belleville and Nutley 

Going north from Newark on the Newark and Patcrson branch of the Erie 
or the Paterson trolley line there is no apparent break between the big city and 
its northern next-door neighbor, the flourishing town of Belleville, another 
point of great historic interest. Here, at Main and Rutgers Streets, is the 
oldest Dutch Reformed church in New Jersey, and second oldest in the United 
States. There was a place of worship on the same site at least as far back 
as 1700, and possibly a decade or so earlier, and it was rebuilt in 1852. 
From the belfry of the old church, which in Revolutionary days was a fort- 
ress. Captain Speer shot a British officer who was reconnoitering, and the 
musket which he used is among the cherished possessions of this fine old 
church militant. 

The most northerly town of Essex County is Nutley, with many hand- 
some homes: a typical commuter community with a somewhat noted colony 
of artists and writers. The Essex County Park Commission here is laying 
out the picturesque Yanticaw (or Yountakah) Bark, and not far off is the 
golf course of the Yountakah Country Club. 

Revolutionary Fighting Ground 

South of Newark, just over the line in Union County, lies a region which 
was fighting ground again and again during the War for Independence, when 
it formed a part of the town of Newark. This historic soil comprises Spring- 
field, Connecticut Farms, and what is now called Union Centre, and every 
American schoolboy knows that the Battle of Springfield, fought on June 
23, 1780, was one of the most glorious achievements of the patriot arms. 
A memorable incident of that battle was the part played by James Caldwell, 
the "Fighting Parson." The Americans ran short of wadding. Pastor 
Caldwell ran into the Presbyterian church, gathered the hymn books from the 
pews, and distributed them to the soldiers, yelling: "Put Watts into 'em 
boys; give 'em Watts!" So well did the "boys" follow their chaplain's 
advice that very soon Knyphausen and his Hessians beat a hasty retreat out 
of New Jersey. A Hessian detachment earlier in the same year had burned 
and pillaged Connecticut Farms and killed many of the peaceful denizens 
including the pastor's wife, Mrs. Hannah Ogden Caldwell, who was shot to 
death as she held her babe in her arms. The Presbyterian church, founded in 
1746, burned by the British in 1780 and rebuilt in 1786, stands on the original 



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site; the Revolutionary burying ground, with a monument to the heroes 
of 1780 whose bones rest there, is a shrine for American patriots, and in the 
schoolyard they may see the cannon which barked from Tin Kettle Hill and 
helped scare off the redcoats. 

The only municipality of Essex County remaining to be mentioned is 
Irvington, which with its population of iil.OOO has the distinction of being 
Newark's fastest growing suburb and may be regarded as virtually a part of 
the city rather than an outlying objective for the tourist. 




Costumes: Clay, Hides and Leathers. MoUie Kaufman, Helen Duncan, Joe La Duca 



The West Hudson Towns 

Contributing 50,000 people to the 700,000 population of Greater Newark, 
and participating by invitation in the city's birthday party, are the three 
towns on the Hudson County bank of the Passaic River — East Newark, Harri- 
son and Kearny. To all intents and purposes, excepting politically. East 



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Newark and Harrison are a part of Newark and their characteristics are 
mainly industrial — thriving workaday communities. The southern part of 
Kearny is also a factory region, but the northern part, known as Arlington, 
is attractive as a residential section and has several points of interest for the 
sightseer. Conspicuous is Kearny Castle, the steepled mansion built by 
Major Gen. Philip Kearny shortly before the Civil War, when he abandoned 
his ancestral farmhouse on the Newark bank of the river, nearly opposite 
where the State Normal School now stands. It was to Kearny Castle that 
the body of the great New Jersey soldier was brought after he had been 
killed at Chantilly. Near-by is the New Jersey Soldiers' Home, the main 
building of which is the old Rutherford mansion. The estate was brought 
for this purpose and the home established there in 1888 after having been 
situated for 22 years in Newark. At Arlington also are the buildings of the 
Catholic Protectory. 




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166 Official Guide and Manual 

For the information of visitors to Newark during the Celebration the fol- 
lowing list of lodgings is furnished from the register of the Young Men's 
Christian Association. The prices as a rule range from $1.50 to $3 a week. 

Mrs. T. F. Atwood, 49 James Street. 

Mrs. Grace Spaeth, 46 James Street. 

Mrs. Johnson, 91 Bleecker Street. 

Mrs. D. H. Rood, 11 Warren Street. 

Mrs. A. Lynn, 183 North Fifth Street. 

Mrs. S. S. Gardner, 112 Bleecker Street. 

Mrs. Sarah J. Greeg, 41 Thomas Street. 

Mrs. Carrie F. Humphreys, 18 Linden Street. 

Mrs. J. H. Clark, 18 South 13th Street. 

Mrs. Thomas S. Hendershot, 69 Court Street, "The Hillside." 

Mrs. M. Silbey, 170 Bank Street. 

Mrs. Kaiser, 442 High Street. 

Mrs. A. A. Rowe, 196 North Third Street. 

Mrs. Thomas Dunsmore, 985 Broad Street. 

Mrs. Loretta King, 461 South 14th Street. 

C. A. Cavanagh, 41 Franklin Street. 

Miss Dodwell, 26 Plum Street. 

Mrs. E. Ellis, 388 Summer Avenue. 

Mrs. Strouble, 28 Marshall Street. 

Mrs. H. L. Jacques, 419 South Belmont Avenue. 

Mrs. N. G. Werner, 100 Murray Street. 

Mrs. William Kennedy, 70 Bleecker Street. 

Mrs. Oliver W. Johnson, 65 Nelson Place. 

Mrs. L. A. Luihn, 149, South 6th Street. 

Mrs. C. T. Piatt. 32 Hedden Terrace. 

Mrs. L. Fink, 340 Seventh Avenue. 

Mrs. E. E. Cox, 149 Bank Street. 

Miss J. M. Thomas, 51 James Street. 

Mrs. Emma L. Smith, 77 Hillside Avenue (near Clinton Avenue). 

Mrs. G. Behling, 95 Halsey Street. 

Mrs. Edgar Buffurn, 291 Belleville Avenue. 

Mrs. M. Morris, 61 James Street. 

Mrs. L. B. LaRue, 170 Washington Street. 

Mrs. Florence D. King, 1 Emmett Street, corner Sherman Avenue. 

Mrs. George A. Jilson, 47 Fulton Street, "Fulton House." 

Mrs. L. Herter, 44 East Kinney Street. 

Mrs. William T. Aierstok, 357 Summer Avenue. 

Mrs. E. Wood, 121 New Street. 

Mrs. Belle D. Williams, 20 Centre Street. 

Mrs. A. E. F. Seeber, 31 Halsey Street. 

Mrs. Hait, 34 Franklin Street. 

Mrs. W. N. Curtis, 83 East Park Street. 

Mrs. M. H. Chase. 24 East Park Street. 

Mrs. A. A. Leech, 46 East Park Street. 

The Park House, 38 Park Street. 



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Mrs. A. Whiting, 19 Burnett Street. 

Mrs. Tinguer, 59 Court Street. 

Miss Jessie Denton, 978-983 Broad Street, "The Homestead. 

Mrs. L. A. Farrow, 1108 Broad Street. 

Miss A. G. Munn, 42 East Kinney Street. 

Mrs. J. S. Blanchard, 89 Bleecker Street. 

Mrs. F. E. Williams, 54 Bleecker Street. 

Mrs. H. McConville, 38 Atlantic Street. 

Mrs. Louise Bodenstein, 55 James Street. 

Mrs. Doremus, 11^ Warren Street. 

Mrs. Geiger, 43 E. Kinney Street. 

Mrs. M. E. Heisley, 895 Broad Street. 

Mrs. L. Robinson, 938 Broad Street. 

Mrs. G. M. Coe, 14 E. Kinney Street. 

Mrs. C. Taylor, 211 Plane Street. 

Mrs. Frank Barber, 72 James Street. 

Mrs. George Bennett, 43 Warren Place. 

Mrs. Elizabeth Nieman, 19 Myrtle Avenue. 

Mrs. Mary Lewis, 14 Cottage Street. 

Mrs. Edith M. McKee, 77 Lincoln Park. 

Mrs. Diana Giles, 36 Mulberry Street. 

Mrs. J. R. Everson, 177 Broad Street. 

Mrs. George M. Sinclair, 12 Hill Street. 

Mrs. G. E. Outing, 58 Fourth Avenue. 

Mrs. James McFall, 18 Rector Street. 

Mrs. Mary S. Burne, 1122 Broad Street. 




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Miss Christine Ostrum, 11 Warren Place. 

Mrs. E. A. Johnson, 15 Chestnut Street. 

Mrs. J. King, 94 Orchard Street. 

Mrs. F. W. Wagstaff, 2-1 East Kinney Street. 

Mrs. M. Vanderbilt, 26 E. Kinney Street. 

Mrs. M. McCuUy, 45 East Kinney Street. 

Mrs. John Lewis, 177 Orchard Street. 

Miss White. 999 Broad Street. 

Mrs. M. Herzog, 139 Washington Street. 

Mrs. J. Farrand, 57 James Street. 

Mrs. James Verum, 298 Broad Street. 

Mrs. J. W. Melroy, 7 Warren Street. 

Miss Fannie W. Crane, 69 Oriental Street. 

W. B. Van De Bogart, 9 Warren Street. 

Mrs. George Chisholm, 346 High Street (near New Street). 

Mrs. J. H. Harris, 7 Poinier Street. 

Mrs. O. Crogan, 133 W. Kinney Street. 

Mrs. L. A. Romaine, 89 Third Avenue. 

Mrs. S. Craig, 69 Oriental Street. 

Mrs. W. R. Hall, 20 Marshall Street. 

Mrs. Johnson, 54 Oriental Street. 

Mrs. L. F. Landmesser, 511 Washington Street. 

Mrs. McGill, 57 New Street. 

Mrs. Rae Gordon, 37 Sterling Street. 

Mrs. H. B. Hedden, Belleville and Third x\ venue. 

Mrs. Rose M. Keely, 16 Lombardy Street. 

Mrs. George E. Drucquer, 201 No. 11th Street. 

Mrs. Edward G. Outing, 58 Fourth Avenue. 

Mrs. W. Walpole, 90 Fourth Avenue. 

Mrs. W. Wilde, 13 Sidney Place. 

Mrs. E. Bamstyne, 370 High Street. 

Mrs. A. MuUin, 58 Plane Street. 

Mrs. Laura L. Ward, 6 East Park Street. 

Mrs. R. F. Pier, 20 East Park Street. 

Mrs. E. Spangler, 122 Third Street. 

Mrs. J. H. Haines, 7 Madison Avenue. 

Mrs. M. E. Davenport, 198 Garside Street. 



Lodgings for Women 

Unescorted women or girls, strangers in the city, seeking lodgings should 
apply at the Young Women's Christian Association, 53 Washington St., 
where they will be directed to safe and comfortable quarters. 



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The New Robert Treat Hotel, Newark 



The guest arriving at the hotel ascends broad white marble steps of Italian 
travatine into the wide lobby, passing through a vestibule also of white 
marble. Huge columns, a mezzanine gallery overlooking the lobby, a mag' 
nificent picture on the open fireplace mantel of Robert Treat landing in 
Newark and being greeted by an Indian, and combination lighting fixtures 
in keeping with the general appointments of the main entrance halls stand 
out prominently. Spacious lounging places occupy either side of the front 
of the building, with tables and other furniture, large palms and other potted 
plants for decorative purposes, and in the balcony, or gallery, are writing 
desks and tables and other provisions for the serving of afternoon tea. The 
floors are laid in tile, with borders and mosaic designs, over which are spread 
rugs in tones and designs to match the general color scheme and architectural 
provisions. 



Sloan & Chace 

Mfg. Company, Ltd. 

Sixth Ave. and North 13th St. 

Roseville Ave. Station, Lackawanna R.R. 

NEWARK, NEW JERSEY 




Manufacturers of 

PRECISION MACHINERY 

BENCH LATHES AND ATTACHMENTS 
BENCH MILLING MACHINES 
BENCH DRILL PRESSES 

BENCH TAPPING AIACHINES 
FIXTURES, JIGS AND GAUGES 
GUN BARREL RIFLING MACHINE 

GEAR CUTTING MACHINES 
PINION CUTTING MACHINES 
RACK CUTTING MACHINES 
PUNCHES AND DIES 

SPECIAL MACHINE WORK 
CARTRIDGE VENT DRILLING MACHINE 



The quickest and most 
convenient way to travel 
between Newark and 
New York City is via 

HUDSON 
TUBES 



Take 
Tube Trains 

at 

Park Place^ 

Newark 



Boeger-Meyer Machine & Tool Co. 

59-65 McWhorter St. :: NEWARK, N. J. 

ENGINEERS and MACHINISTS 



DESIGNERS AND MANUFACTURERS 

of 

Grinding Machinery 

Machine Tools 

Automatic and Special Machinery 

Jigs, Tools, Dies, Moulds 



INVENTIONS DEVELOPED 



The Largest 1916 Athletic 
Events in the World 

September 8th and 9th 
National Field and Track Cham- 
pionships, A. A. U. 

September 16th 

National All-round Championship 
A. A. U. 

Weequahic Park 



Newark's Motto: "Newark Knows How." 
Our Motto: "The College that Graduates Experts." 

"Mecca of Chiropractic^' 

Dr. Matthew H. Robinson, Dean 

Be a drugless Physician and Bloodless Surgeon. 

Become a Doctor of Chiropractic. 

Write for a Prospectus 

"The Shrine of Drugless Physicians" 

THE NEW JERSEY COLLEGE OF CHIROPRACTIC 

Incorporated under the laws of the State of New Jersey as an institution of Learning 

122 Roseville Avenue Newark, N. J. 

If you are sick and have tried everything else with 

no lasting results, try Chiropractic (spinal) 

adjustments and get well. 

HISTORICAL 

The first accidental crude Chiropractic adjustment of a 
vertebra was given in September, 1895, by D. D. Palmer, who was 
the founder of the first School of Chiropractic. He died October 
30th, 1913. The New Jersey College of Chiropractic, 122 Roseville 
Avenue, Newark, New Jersey, was founded in 1910 by Dr. F. W. 
Collins, and incorporated in 1913 by graduates of D. D. Palmer. 
"The New Jersey College is the Mecca of Chiropractic." 

WHAT IS CHIROPRACTIC? 

(Ki-ro-prak-tik) 
^^HIROPRACTIC is a scientific method of removing the 
^^ cause of disease (acute or chronic) without the aid of 
drugs, surgery or appliances. 

The science of Chiropractic is based upon a correct knowl- 
edge of the brain, spine, spinal cord and nerves emanating 
therefrom. Pressure on a nerve at the opening where it 
leaves the spine, will cause disease in that organ or tissue at 
which the nerve ends. The Chiropractor, after locating the 
place of the pressure (by vertebral palpation and the tracing 
of the tender nerves) adjusts, by hand, the subluxated (dis- 
placed) vertebrae which lelieves the pressure and enables 
"Nature" to restbre normal conditions — HEALTH. 
Edison's Opinion 
• "*'The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but 
will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, in 
diet, and in cause and prevention of disease." 

Mention OflBcial Manual and Guide when answering adv. 




FLOUR 

AND 

CEREALS 

The mark of quality, purity 
and economy for flour and 
cereals. Milled in New York 
City in one of the finest mills 
of modern, up to the minute 
construction. Direct shipments 
insure your goods always fresh. 

THE HECKER CEREAL CO. 
HECKER-JONES-JEWELL MILLING CO. 

Produce Exchange, New York City 




Protection 
for the Home 

Husband: I iorsot tn tell you thai /took He was rigfht. For him "Next Year" 

out another policy yesterday. never came. He took " the long trip," but 

Wife: VVhat-another ? I ihousht you were left his home protected. 
£oiv£ to wait till next year. 

Husband: Yes, dear, but it costs less now, and Men like th»t make the Nation great and 

besides— next year niay never come. there are thousands of them in every State. 

The strongest desire of husband and wife is the welfare of their 
children. The husband works hard to provide for them and would 
be glad to know how best to safeguard them. 

The wife works hard too — in the home — and is equally interested 
with her husband in sound insurance-protection at low net cost such 
as that offered by the Postal Life Insurance Company — the Company 
of Safety, Service and Saving. 

Safety Saving 

The Postal Life issues all standard legal- The Postal Life employs no agents and 

reserve policy-forms; it is under the strict maintains no branch offices, but receives 

supervision of the New York State Insur- business from applicants wherever they 

ance Department; it maintains the full may live, thus making decisive savings 

reserves required by law, now $9, 000, 000; for its policyholders, 
also a special deposit of $100,000 with 

the State of New York and ample funds Find Out What You Can Save 

in leading banks. . , . ,^ ^ ,„ 

^, T, f , ■ •. . .u u MAIL THE COUPON OR WRITE 

1 he Postal, now in its tenth year, has -rr>r» a v n • i j 

a-in Ann nnn £• • i 1 UJJ A Y . Doing SO paces you under no 

$40,000,000 of insurance in force. ur .• a . 

. obligation and no agent _________ 

Service will be sent to see you. / Postal Life 

As an aid in safeguarding the health of The Postal Life dis- / Insurance Ctmpany 

policyholders the Company maintains a penseswith agents and / 3S Nassau St., N.Y. 

Health Bureau, distributes periodical the resultant com- / . Without obliga- 

TT 1.1 T. Ti .• J -J I • ■ t tion, please send 

Health Bulletins, and provides one tree mission - savings / ^f. ^^\\ insurance 

medical examination a year for each go to you because / particulars for my 
policyholder if desired. you deal direct, f ^^re. 

/ Name 

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* Manual Newark Celebration 

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ESTABLISHED 1871 



INC0RP0RATP:D 1900 



E. T. CARRINGTON 

Sales Agent 

No. 7 MAIDEN LANE 

NEW YORK 



CARRINGTON & CO 

Makers of the Fifiest Grade Jewelry 
for the Trade 

® 



TRADE MARKS 




42 WALNUT ST. 



NEWARK, N. J. 



In the Days of Robert Treat 

The first settlers of Newark would fail 
to recognize the "old town" if they could 
see it today. 

But one of the problems with which 
they contended still remains with us — 
tlie problem of food. 

And the one food upon which they de- 
pended is still our mainstay — that 
food is bread. 

Good bread is the most whole- 
s ome and 
nou rishing 
food you can 
provide. Eat 
plenty of pure 
bread — the 
kind that's 
made with 




:john Dough 
Iodised on 
jeiscnmann's^ 

FLEISCHMANN'Si 

YEAST 



Fieischmann's 
Yeast 



FLEISCHMANN'S YEAST 

As a shining example of what merit in the matter of superior quality and 
reliability of service and perseverance will accomplish, the Fleischmann Co. 
can point with pride to the business they are now doing in connection with 
their headquarters in this section located in their beautiful building at 174 
William Street, which building is an ornament to that section of the city. 

This branch was started about fifty years ago with one employe, Mr. 
Solomon DeJonge who, at the beginning, carried his goods around to the 
bakers and grocers in a basket. 

As the business expanded, more salesmen were added to the list and 
additional carts brought into service. These carts were later on replaced with 
four-wheeled wagons of larger carrying capacity, and now in order to enable 
their salesmen to reach the trade in the quickest time, the more modern 
vehicle — the automobile — is used as a conveyance. 

The Company now employs eight salesmen in Newark who supply the 
trade daily in Newark, Harrison, Kearny, Arlington, Belleville, the Oranges, 
Maplewood, Irvington, Califon, Liberty Corners, Middle Valley and Plucka- 
min, besides having resident agents in Morristown, Montclair, Plainfield 
and Summit who also use automobiles to supply the trade in the territory 
tributary to their respective agencies. 

Mr. William Brueckmann is the manager of the local branch. He is a 
good fellow, very popular with the trade and is always "on the job." 



tea- 

UPTON 



thats only half 
a word— the 
other half is 



We grow it, we 
blend it, we pack 
it, five kinds to 
meet varying tea 
tastes. Ceylon and 
India Black, Black 
and Green Mixed, 
Formosa -Oolong, 
English Breakfast 
and Green. 

Iced tea or hot tea you 
get it at its best, when 
it's made with Lipton's 
tea. 

No Advance 
in Prices 

At all grocers. H lb. airtight packages 

25c, 30c, 35c. 

None genuine without the signature of 
[Sir Thomas J. Lipton thus: — 

T£A Coffeea^^dCocoa Planter 

149 Franklin St., New York City 




Index 



A Piige 

Abraham, Order of 95 

Acquannock 38 

Adams, Hon. Frederic 14 

Alline, David 39 

Amaranth, Order of . 103 

America, Forester* of 9-1 

America, Daughter! of 92 

A. M. E. Churches 83 

Ancient Order Hibernians 81 

Appointment of Committee of One Hundred... 6 

Army and Navy Union 88 

Athletic Champions and Records IIO-IH 

Athletic Events, Program 109 

Athletic Clubs 90 

B 

Bacheller, J. H 15 

Baechlin, Henry 24 

Banking 60 

Band Concerts 57 

Barker, Mrs. George 18 

Baptist Churches 78 

Baseball Games 113 

Belle\-ille Park 51 

Belleville 163 

Belleville Township 50 

Bethlehem, Shepherds of 104 

Bleick, Aid. Wm. D 35 

Bloomfield 161 

Bloomfield Township 50 

B'mai B'rith, Order of 95 

Board of Trade 58 

Boundaries of Town of Newark S 

Boudinot House 39 

Boy Scouts 21 

Boyden, Seth 39 

Branch Brook Park 46 

Branch Brook Park 183 

B'rith Scholora, Order of 96 

Bronze Howitzer 44 

Brotherhood of America 91 

B'rith Abraham, Order of 103 

Buffaloes, Order of 96 

Burr, Aarofl 39 



CaldweU 168 

Caldwell Township 50 

Caledonian Club 90 

Camera Club, Newark 23 

Camera Club 89 

Camp Frelinghuysen 45 

Camp Homestead 39 

Camp Newark 51 

Cann, Aid. Frank W 35 

Catia, John 8!) 

Catholic Benevolent Legion 91 

Carteret, Philip 9 

Cedars, The 39 

Celebration Memorials 45 

Celebration, Origin of 54 

Celebration Spirit 18 

Celtic Club 89 

Cemeteries 60 

Center Street Hospital 40 

Charitable Institutions 71 

Choral Prize Awards 35 

Chronology ^ 4 

Christian^Science^Church 80 



Page 

Christadelphian Church 80 

Churches, Episcopal 80 

Churches, Evangelical 81 

Churches, Greek Orthodox 81 

Churches, Independent 81 

Churches, Jewish 81 

Churches, A. M. E 83 

Churches, Baptist...... 78 

Churches, Congregational 80 

Churches, Christadelphian 80 

Churches, Chnstian bcience 80 

Churches, Lutheran 88 

Churches, Methodist 82 

Churches, Presbyterian 83 

Churches, Reformed, Dutch 84 

Churches, Reformed, Episcopal 85 

Churches, Roman Catholic 85 

Churches, Seventh Day Adventiit 86 

Churches, Universalist 87 

Churches, United Presbyterian 87 

Church Directory 79 

City Hall i 

City Hotel .40 

Clinton Club 8t 

Clinton Park 84 

Clinton Township SO 

Clinton Township 51 

Club, Athletic 90 

Club, Caledonian 90 

Club, Camera 88 

Club, Celtic 89 

Club, Clinton 88 

Club, Down Town 88 

Club, Essex 89 

Club, Lawyers 88 

Club, Newark Stamp 89 

Club, North End 89 

Club, Progress 89 

Club, Rice Chess 90 

Club, Rotary 89 

Club, Sporting 90 

Club, Union 89 

Club, West End 89 

Cockloft Hall 40 

Coles, Dr. Abraham 44 

Columbus, Knights of 88 

College Woman's Club SO 

Colleoni Statue 53 

Combs, Rev. M. N 46 

Commercial Travelers 80 

Committee of Fifty 18 

Commemoration Stone 43 

Congregational Churches 80 

Congressmen 61 

Contemporary Club SO 

Coult, Miss Margaret 14 

Council of Jewish Women 81 

Court House 40 

Crane, Jasper 9 

Curtis, John 9 

Curtomis Club 88 

D 

Dana, John Cotton 15 

Dana, John Cotton 8 

Dawson, Mrs. Henry H 18 

Daughters of America 92 

Daughters fAmerican Revolution 47-89 

Daughters of Isabella : 92 



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Daughters of Liberty 93 

Daughters Kevolution 47 

Daughters of Scotia 92 

Daughters St. (ieorge 93 

Decorative Scheme 24 

Department of Mptor Vehicles 120 

Dillon, Uev. Father 17 

Directory of Churches 79 

Divident Hill 44 

Doane Park 44 

Doane Statue .. 44 

Dougherty, Aid. A. J 35 

Down Town Club 89 

Dryden, Miss Helen 15 



Eagles, Order of 94 

Eagle Tavern 40 

Elevations, Essex County 61 

Elks, Order of. 91 

Early Settlers' Monument 40 

East Orange Township 51 

Eastern Star, Order of 103 

Essex Camera Club 89 

Essex Club 89 

Essex County Elevations 61 

Essex County Court House 46 

Essex County Parks 51 

Essex County Parks 61 

Essex Co. Teachers' Guild 21 

Episcopal Churches 80 

Evangelican Churches 81 

Exetapt Firemen 89 



Fagen, Aid. Michael 35 

Fairniount Township 60 

Feigenspan, C. W 53 

Fire Department 78 

Firemen's Building 46 

Firemen, Exempt 89 

First Bank 39 

First Presbyterian Church 40 

First Presbyterian Church 46 

Forest Hill Reading Club 20 

Forester, Frank 39 

Foresters, Order of 95 

Foresters of America 94 

Foreign Service Veterans . 89 

Foringer, A. E 15 

Four Corners 41 

Founders and Patriots 47 

Franklin Township 51 

Free Pulilic Lihrar.v 12 

Free Public Lilirary 16 

Free Public library 23 

Free Public Library 45 

Free Public Librar.y 46 

Free Public Library 76 

Free Sons Lsrael, Order of 96 

Free Sons Judah, Order of 96 

Frelinghuysen Statue 44 

Frog Bond 41 



G. A. R. Posts 87 

Garrison, Theodosia . 15 

George Junior Republic 20 

German Americans, Order of 103 

Germans, Old 103 

German Veterans 89 

Goodwin, Rev. Hannibal 46 

Greek Orthodox Churches 81 

Green, Jordan 24 

Grist Mill, First 42 

Grover Cleveland Park 62 

G. U. O. of O. F 102 



H Page 

Hahn, Aid. Chas. G 35 

Haussling, Jacob 6 

Haussling, Jacob 12 

Haussling, Jacob 54 

Haves, Miss Frances 20 

Healey, Aid. H. J 35 

Heptasophs, Order of 94 

Hibernians, Ancient Order of 91 

Higby, Gilbert C 24 

"Hiker," The Statue 44 

Historic Places 39 

History of Newark 4 

Historical Prize Essay Contest 17 

Hotels 121 

Hospitals 70 

Howard, Mrs. James.. ...•. 21 

Hunt, William S 14 



Independent Church 81 

Insurance 60 

Inter-Scholastic Games ...113-114 

Iron Foundry 41 

Isabella, Daughters of 02 



Jewish Churches 81 

Jr. 6. U. A. M 93 

Kearny Castle 41 

Kearny Homestead 41 

Kearny, Gen. Philip 46 

Kearny Statue 44 

Kennedy, J. Wilmer 17 

King, Martin J :.. 35 

King Solomon, Order of 97 

Kinney Building 46 

Knights of Columbus 98 

Knights and Ladies of Honor 99 

Knights and Ladies of Security 99 

Knights of Maccabees 99 

Knights of Malta 98 

Knights of Pythias :....: : 98 

Koenig Building 47 



Ladies Cath. Ben. Association 99 

Lawyers' Club 89 

Liberty, Daughters of .....;; 93 

Liberty Pole '....... 45 

Library, Free Public ; 11 

Library, Free Public 12 

Library, Free Public 15 

Library, Free Public 23 

Library Hall 41 

Library, Free Public 45 

Library, I'ree Public 4li 

Library, Free Public 76 

Lincoln Memorial 44 

List of Lodgings, 166 

Livingston Township 59 

Lodgings for Women 168 

Lord Proprietors of New Jersey 9 

Loyal Order of Moose 100 

Lutheran Churches 82 

Lyric Club ; 20 

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Maccabees, Knights of 99 

M.ichinery Hall 41 

Malta, Knights of 99 

Manufactures , 69 

Market Place 41 

Masonic (Italian) 101 

Masonic Fraternity _ 100 

Masson, Thomas L : : 15 

Matlack, Charles : 15 

MootingHoii.se-. 46 

Memorial Building 10 

Memorial Building 19 

Memorial, Lincoln 44 



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Memorial Tablets 46 

Memorial, Washington 44 

Methodist Churches 82 

Methodist Protestant Church 83 

Military Park 44 

Military Park 47 

Military Hall 42 

Militia in Newark. 61 

Millburn Township 50 

Montclair 162 

Motion Picture Houses 118 

Montclair Township 51 

Moose, Loyal Order of 100 

Motoring Tours.... 122 

Monument, Early hettlers 40 

Monuments in Newark 44 

Municipal Art League 21 

Museum, Newark. 76 

Murphy, Franklin. 6 

Murphy, Franklin. 11 

Musicians' Club.... 38 

Musical Societies... 75 

Mystic Shrine 101 

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National Congress, S A R 120-121 

National Security League 87 

National Union 101 

Neighbors in Celebration 161 

Newark Academy.. 39 

Newark Academy.. 46 

Newark Boundaries, Town of 9 

Newark Boy Scouts 21 

Newark Camera Club 23 

Newark Camp 51 

Newark City Home 119 

Newark City, New Charter 10 

Newark, First Charter 9 

Newark Historic Places 39 

Newark, History... 4 

Newark, Incorporation 10 

Newark's Industrial 1 xposition 36 

Newark Monuments 44 

Newark, Mother of Towns 50 

Newark Museum... 11 

Newark Parks 61 

Newark Port 52 

Newark, Second Charter 9 

Newark Seal 47 

Newark Statistics.. 56 

Newarker, The 6 

Newark Poster Exhibit 15 

North End Club ... 89 

N. J. Historical Society 20 

N. J. Historical Society 73 

N. J. Vols. Association, 39th 88 

N. J. Vols. Association, 8th 88 

Nutley 164 

N. Y. Vols., 20th... 88 

O 

Odd Fellows 101 

O. D. H. S 103 

Ogden Homestead. 42 

Old Burying Ground 42 

Old Germans 103 

Orangemen, Order of 103 

Oranges, The 162 

Orange "Township.. 50 

Order of Amaranth 103 

Order of B'nai B'rith 95 

Order B'rith Scholom 96 

Order of Buffaloes 96 

Order B'rith Abraham 103 

Order of Eagles 94 

Order of Elks , 91 

Order Eastern Star 103 

Order Free Sons Judah 96 

Order Free Sons Israel 96 

Order of Foresters.. 95 



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Order German Americans 103 

Order of Heptasophs 94 

Order King Solomon 97 

Order of Orangemen 103 

Order of Red Men 95 

Order True Sisters 97 

Organizations 60 

Origin of Celebration 54 

Outings by Trolley 106 

O. U. A. M., Jr 102 



Pageant, Description of 33, 34 

Pageant, The 33 

Park, Belleville 51 

Park, Branch Brook 46 

Park, Clinton 64 

Park, Concerts in 57 

Park, Doane 44 

Park, Grover Cleveland 51 

Park House 42 

Park, Military 44 

Park, Military 47 

Park, Phillips 46 

Park Washington 44 

Park, Washington 46 

Park, Weequahic 33 

Park, Weequahic 44 

Park, Weequahic 47 

Parks, Essex County 61 

Parks, Newark 61 

Parsonage, The 60 

Passaic Valley Sewerage Commissioners 120 

Passaic River Bridge 39 

Pell, Mrs. Francis 21 

Personal Service Club 21 

Philanthropies 68 

Philitscipoma 20 

Phillips Park 46 

Photographic Competition 23 

Pierson, Rev. Abraham 9 

Plume Homestead 42 

Poetry Competition 14 

Poland, Dr. A. B 17 

Patriotic Order of Americans 104 

Poster Catalogue 25 

Poster Art 15 

Postal Information 116-118 

Port Newark , 53 

Population Essex County 118-119 

Population Growth 56 

Presbyterian Churches 83 

Price Matlack, Jr 15 

Princeton University 40 

Princeton University 47 

Proctor's Theatre 38 

Program of Events 25, 26, 27, 28^29, 30, 31, 32 

Progress Club '. 89 

Prudential Building 46 

Public Schools 43 

Public Service Terminal 127 

Public Utility Commissioners 120 

Pythias, Knights of 98 



Quarries, The .' 4 



Railroad Information 52 

Railroad Stations in Newark 119-120 

Ray Palmer Club 21 

Raymond, Thomas L 14 

Raymond, Thomas L ; 18 

Red Men, Order of 95 

Reformed Dutch Churches 84 

Reformed Episcopal Churches 85 

Revolutionary Fighting Ground 163 

Rice Chess Club 90 

Robert Treat Hotel 71 

Roman Catholic Churches 85 



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Rosen, Aid. Hymen 35 

Rotary Club 89 

Royal Arcanum 104 

Royal Neighbors 104 

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Safe and Sane Fourth 35 

Salmagundi 20 

Saturday Club •. 20 

School for Apprentices 43 

Schoolmen's Club. 46 

School, First Town 43 

Schools, Special 72 

Schuyler, Col. Philip 47 

Scottish Clan 105 

Seal of Newark 47 

Security League, National 87 

Seitz, Miss Ellastine 20 

Seventh Day Adventist Churches 86 

Seymour, Mrs. James M 20 

Shade Tree Commission 64 

Shepherds of Bethlehem 104 

Societies, Musical 75 

Society, N. J. Historical 73 

Society, St. Andrews' 90 

Solandt, Mrs. Jennie A 20 

Sons American Revolution 46 

Sons American Revolution 89 

Sons of Italy 105 

Sons of Veterans 89 1 

South Orange Township 50 

St. Andrew's Society 90 

St. Patrick Alliance 105 

St. Patrick's Cathedral 46 

St. George, Daughters of 93 

Stamp Club, Newark 89 

State Commi.ssioners 118 

State Normal School 46 

Statistical Information 114-115 

Statistics of Newark 56 

Statistics of Newark 60 

Statue, Boyden, Seth 44 

Statue, CoUeoni _ 53 

Statue, Doane 44 

Statue, Frelinghuysen 44 

Statue, Kearny 44 

Statue, "The Hiker" 44 

Spanish War Veterans 89 

Special Schools 72 

Sporting Clubs 90 

Springfield, Battle of 43 

Springfield 50 

Stone Bridge 48 

Suffrage Organizations 90 

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Tablets, Memori&l 46 

Tall Cedars 105 

Tannery, First 43 



Tavern, Rising Sun 43 

Temperance Societies 106 

Ten Eyck, Mrs. Jay 20 

Theatres 122 

Town Pump 43 

Towns, West Hudson 164 

Trade, Board of 59 

Training Place 43 

Treat, John 9 

Treat, Robert 9 

Treat, Robert 46 

Tribe of Ben Hur 105 

Triedler, Adolph 16 

Trinity Church 43 

Trinity Church 46 

Trolley Lines 108 

Trolley Outings 106 

True Sisters, Order of 97 

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Union Club 89 

United Workmen 91 

Universalist Church 87 

United Presbyterian Church 87 

U. S. Custom House 118 

U. S. Internal Revenue Department 118 

V 

r_Vailsburg 51 

"Van Dyke, Prof. J. C 15 

Van Horn, Amos H 44 

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Warner, Mrs. William H 20 

Washington Park 44 

Washington Park 46 

Washington Memorial 45 

Water Supply 76 

Watering Place 44 

Weequahic Park 33 

Weequahic Park 44 

Weequahic Park 47 

Weequahic Park Athletic Events 109 

Weequahic Park Pageant 35 

Weinberg, Mrs. Mason 21 

West End Club 89 

Wiener, A. W 15 

Wolfs, Miss Marie 20 

Woman Suffrage 90 

Woodmen of America 101 

Woodmen of World 106' 

Woodruff, Arthur D 20 . 

Woodside, Annexation of 51 

Woodside Divided 51 

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Y. M. C. A 74 

Y. W. C. A 75 



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